The Tribune

ARTIST Je’Rome Harris Miller continues his annual fundraising exhibitions for the University of the Bahamas Winston Saunders Memorial Scholarship Fund this week.

“Colours ... Above and Beyond” opens on Thursday night and runs until Sunday evening in the Christ Church Cathedral Hall. Mr Saunders was a Bahamian educator, lawyer, actor, playwright and cultural director.

“The collection depicts the colours on the horizon, both in the sky and below it,” Mr Miller told The Tribune. The exhibit will feature about 35 to 40 pieces, all specifically done. “I started preparing at the end of last summer when I started doing all my research and I was finished all the work just before Lent when we had a preview show of the collection,” he said.

Mr Miller’s works can be found in collections around the world, including Europe and the US, and in the private collections of Ian and Eleanor Phillips, Winston and Gail Saunders, Joe and Lynda Gibson, Lady Sharon and Sir Franklyn Wilson, Gary and Cleopatra Christie, Elaine Pinder, Scott Godet, Ferron and Carolita Bethel, among others. His work has been donated in support of many local charities and fundraisers.

Mr Miller has been putting on the exhibitions for 11 years, his first - ‘Bold’ - was held at the Azure Spa, British Colonial Hilton Hotel, in 2006. He auctions a number of his pieces in the exhibition to raise funds towards the Winston Saunders Memorial Scholarship. He has been a great supporter of the C R Walker High School musical department, where he is on the school board, and is also on the programme advisory committee at the Bahamas Technical and Vocational Institute.

He said his philosophy is to not make his exhibitions commercial events, “but an opportunity for patrons to come out and enjoy themselves in an atmosphere conducive to artwork”.

• ‘Colours ... Above and Beyond’ opens on Thursday at the Christ Church Cathedral Church Hall on George Street at 6.30pm. It will remain open from April 21-23, 2pm-6pm, by appointment only.