"Mother & Child" Sculpture

Artist: Mandy Thody

Bajo El Sol Gallery, St John

As a self-taught artist Mandy Thody works in both painting and sculpture, in several mediums, she is always looking for connections between two and three dimensional work. Her themes, primarily of humanity expressed through the face, run through her drawings, watercolors, sculptures, and dolls. She is interested in the element of mystery and exoticism inherent in Western perceptions of other cultures, but in trying to understand how we perceive tribal people she conveys something of their different outlook on the planet. Whether in a portrait-type depiction of a Zulu tribes woman, a West Indian market-lady, an imaginary Arawak in the vanished PreColumbian rain-forest of the Caribbean.

Mandy Thody’s work is highly collected and sought after; she currently lives in the rainforest north of Frederiksted in St. Croix.