about the artist
Improvising his own melody where tradition, history and human body fuse together onto a canvas. Putting aside verbal knowledge examining different aspects of colors forms and shapes. Seems that the inherent nature really becomes expressive only by means of the present tendency to use the self-reflexive process. It is emotional, and painting is like the conductor of an orchestra. Painting is not a peaceful process: it is ecstasy and joy.
Saba's art should reach people, not necessarily in any artistic sense, but just to penetrate their consciousness, to bring a reaction. He just wants to stop them and make them absorb the shapes and colors. He would like people to see his paintings as jumping from the abstractness of the colors to the landscape. Thickly textured strokes achived with brush and palette knife. His passion is to bring life to a painting by texturing and swirling colors together in the messiness of an oil painting. Focus is on perceiving the moment and reflecting the involments on an emotional level. The overpainted frame makes the paintings more spatial and three-dimensional.
Saba won 2nd prize for his entry in the "Wreck of the Ten Sails" competition organized by the Cayman National Museum. He has been exhibiting his works regularly in group shows on the island. Presently, he is represented by Pure Art and the Kennedy Gallery on the island with whom he had solo shows with in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2017, and 2020.
Saba held his first independent show in December of 1996. In 1998, he won 1st prize in the "Dramatic Light in Artwork" Competition organised by the Cayman Islands Visual Arts Society. In January 1999 he was Artist of the Month on Cayman News 27 television program. He is very proud of his large scale 10 foot Untitled public sculpture of bananas, which was unfortunately destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
His paintings have been selected for Permanent Collection of the Cayman Islands National Museum and for the Cayman Islands National Gallery. Saba was named 'undoubtedly Cayman's most popular artist' by the What’s Hot magazine in 2002. The same year he was represented in Art Miami by Kensington-Lott Fine Art Gallery.
"Saba is the name of another Caribbean Island. This name, for him conjures up Caribbean colors, moods and feelings."
Saba's art should reach people, not necessarily in any artistic sense, but just to penetrate their consciousness, to bring a reaction. He just wants to stop them and make them absorb the shapes and colors. He would like people to see his paintings as jumping from the abstractness of the colors to the landscape. Thickly textured strokes achived with brush and palette knife. His passion is to bring life to a painting by texturing and swirling colors together in the messiness of an oil painting. Focus is on perceiving the moment and reflecting the involments on an emotional level. The overpainted frame makes the paintings more spatial and three-dimensional.
Saba won 2nd prize for his entry in the "Wreck of the Ten Sails" competition organized by the Cayman National Museum. He has been exhibiting his works regularly in group shows on the island. Presently, he is represented by Pure Art and the Kennedy Gallery on the island with whom he had solo shows with in 2003, 2006, 2008, 2014, 2017, and 2020.
Saba held his first independent show in December of 1996. In 1998, he won 1st prize in the "Dramatic Light in Artwork" Competition organised by the Cayman Islands Visual Arts Society. In January 1999 he was Artist of the Month on Cayman News 27 television program. He is very proud of his large scale 10 foot Untitled public sculpture of bananas, which was unfortunately destroyed by Hurricane Ivan in 2004.
His paintings have been selected for Permanent Collection of the Cayman Islands National Museum and for the Cayman Islands National Gallery. Saba was named 'undoubtedly Cayman's most popular artist' by the What’s Hot magazine in 2002. The same year he was represented in Art Miami by Kensington-Lott Fine Art Gallery.
"Saba is the name of another Caribbean Island. This name, for him conjures up Caribbean colors, moods and feelings."