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Julius P.A. Gittens was born in Barbados in 1967 and is an award-winning Caribbean journalist and broadcaster. While in London reading for an MA in Journalism at City University, he took up watercolour and has been fascinated by the mystery of the medium ever since.

Borrowing from his love of photography and his work in television, he is largely a self-taught artist and his work has been exhibited each year at Barbados's national fine arts juried exhibition, NIFCA, since 1998. Four of his paintings have won bronze medals at NIFCA, and his pieces are in private collections in the Caribbean, the United States and Europe.

He exhibited for the first time outside of Barbados in 2002 at the 12th Annual Summer Exhibition of Watercolours at 101 Art Gallery in Woodbrook, Trinidad. From time to time, his work may be found at the Pelican Art Gallery, home of the Barbados Arts Council.

His watercolours can be described as a personal, more lyrical echo of his journalism - documenting and preserving the endangered architectural heritage and physical environment of his native Barbados and elsewhere in the Caribbean.

His style has been influenced by the realist master painters of mid-20th Century Barbados, the French impressionists and the acclaimed American watercolourist, Winslow Homer.

His father,
Keith, is a prolific oil and acrylic painter. with whom he exhibited for the first time in December 2004. They are both members of the Barbados Arts Council.

His interests include steelband music (he is particularly fond of the double second steel pan), jazz, photography and golf.
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