Valerie Brathwaite

Valerie Brathwaite (Trinidad & Tobago, 1940) studied at Hornsey College of Art, The Royal College of Art in London, and The Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. The artist moved to Venezuela in 1969. She works primarily in sculpture, printmaking, painting, and drawing. She creates organic abstraction using simple sculptural volumes and curved lines. Her work is in several collections in Venezuela, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, the National Art Gallery, and the Alejandro Otero Museum, as well as in private collections in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere in Latin America. She lives in Caracas, Venezuela.