Visual Art – Cleveland
Prince Boyd was born in St. Catherine, Jamaica in 1972. He moved to the Cayman Islands from his native Jamaica in 2001. Boyd works primarily in the medium of painting but include fabric and household items in his large collage work. Boyd since high school had immense passion for art. With the encouragement of his mother, he polished artistic skills at the Edna Manley School of Visual Arts in Jamaica in 1993. After school Boyd were mentor by famous Jamaican artist Alexander Cooper. Cooper exposed him to painting from life, which would prove pivotal in his development as a painter and remain a staple of his practice today. Boyd explains that Cooper bold brush strokes and plain air panting gave him “a reason to devote my life to painting.”
His first one-person show was held at the Grand Old House, Cayman Islands in 2005. Boyd won the Grand Old House Art competition in 2006. In 1997 he received an award from the Jamaican woman association for depicting there struggles in his work.