My Story - Anya Cherrice Art

 

I was born in Trinidad, surrounded by green — mountains, banana leaves, sunlight cutting through trees. I didn't know it then, but those colors and that feeling of warmth were planting themselves in me.

I studied communications and advertising at Boston University, graduated cum laude, and built a career in a completely different world. But art kept pulling. I started painting on my own — no formal training, just a need to put something on canvas that words couldn't hold.

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I paint in acrylic. Bold greens, rich golds, deep earth tones. My subjects are women — figures who carry quiet strength, who show up every day without fanfare. Women in nature. Women together. I paint the bond between sisters, biological or chosen. I paint the Caribbean landscapes I carry in my memory. I paint motherhood in all its forms — the mother in the land, in the woman, in the connection between them.

My work has been exhibited with the Pasadena Society of Artists, shown at the Pasadena Museum of History, DTLA ArtNight, and Whites Fine Art Gallery. I've been featured in VoyageLA and Canvas Rebel. I work from my studio in Los Angeles.

I offer museum-quality prints of my original paintings because I believe Caribbean art — this warmth, these stories — should live in more homes, not fewer. Every print starts as a hand-painted original. Nothing is digitally generated. Nothing is mass-produced.

If a piece speaks to you, it was probably meant to.