Introducing: Phil Capen, an Artist of the Abacos

Phil Capen, Bahamas House, Paper Giclee

"I have often said that I would not have become a painter if not for
the artists like Phil Capen ahead of me.

It was late in the 1970s when my parents walked in with a watercolor painting by the well-known artist Phil Capen. As a kid, this event would not be fully appreciated for years but would build to have an influence on me that I could not then define. If I could have stepped into that painting, I would have: tropical foliage and coconut palms shaded a small clapboard boathouse; Bahamians wearing straw hats worked on small sailing craft; a perfect use of color reflected the almost surreal blues and greens of the water like the perfect novel, it carried me to a place I had never been.

Many years later when I left college to become an 'artist,' the memory of that painting set me on course and inspired me to capture the beauty of The Bahamas, not just for myself, but also for others.

That is why we are so honored to now represent him in our gallery."

Our collection of Phil’s paper giclees and originals in our gallery and on our website.