Ritchie Eyma

Born in Nassau (Bahamas) in 1967, Ritchie Eyma grew up in Haiti in a household where one uncle was a ceramicist and another was enrolled at L'Academie des Beaux-Arts. The various artistic activities around him soon began to influence him so much that his favorite places to hang out became the National Art Gallery and the Galerie d'Art Nader in Port-au-Prince. 

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 His first attempts at creating art were stenciled comic book characters with colored pencils. Then there were those watercolors that bore the mark of a fruitful imagination and the influence of local artists. When he moved back to Nassau in 1982, his art teacher Sue Bennet-Williams at C.C. Sweeting Senior High School introduced him to oil and acrylic paints. After passing his G.C.E. 'A Level' art exam, oil became his medium of choice.