Kapo revival

A Mallica 'Kapo' Reynolds exhibition opens at the National Gallery on Tuesday. One of Jamaica's most celebrated artists and a pioneer of self-taught, so-called intuitive Jamaican art, Kapo's work stretched from painting to sculpture.

The Gallery has been buying back the work from private collections, including The Angel, which had to be bought back from Killing me Softly singer Roberta Flack, valued at a tidy US$450,000.

"At the age of 12, I received the Spirit of Conversion. I was then reading in Fifth Standard. At the age of 16 I left school; I was not bad at reading. I did not love drawing." – Kapo

You can read more about him, and the exhibition, on the gallery's recently launched blog...