IRIS, Genevieve Lahens Esper 30"x40" Porteuse de Fruits 1996 Acrylic on Canvas #3EB 9"x26" Philome Obin was born in

Philome Obin was born in Limbe in 1891 and died in Cap Haitian in 1986

Global Caribbean III at the Cultural Center of Miami

The school was supported by Tiga Art Materials and Maud Robart

from the " New Saint Soleil " painter movement

I am glad about the light playing on a serene face

IRIS, Genevieve Lahens Esper 30"x40" Porteuse de Fruits 1996 Acrylic on Canvas #3EB 9"x26" Philome Obin was born in"You read so much about what is bad in Haiti, but I can tell you, there is joy in that place," says Esper. "And there is much beauty." (Sun Sentinel, 2001). In her art, Iris has never left home. Born in Port au Prince, Haiti, in 1959, she's a Haitian Modernist who studied at L'Ecole Beaux Art in Paris with an art degree in architecture. The artist's distinctive style shows architectural influences of Byzantine and medieval style, intricate geometric