Maarten parents. She was raised in an area called ‘The village’ which was home to settlers who worked at the Lago oil refinery. Ruby’s mother was a storyteller. All the younger children would come and attend the storytelling. Amongst all the stories, Ruby liked ‘Cinderella’ and ‘Snow white and the Seven Dwarfs’ the most. The story itself did not matter as much to Ruby as the colored illustrations were. She fell in love with the colors that they used and after her mother’s storytelling she would go and try to mimic the colors and pattern of the illustrations. She 's been painting since the age of six but it is not until the age of forty that she began to hold exhibitions. In the early 1970 's, Ruby moved to St. Maarten, her parents ' homeland and in 1983 she held her first solo exhibition. It is thought to be the first one-woman exhibition of the island. In this picture palm trees opens up a painting of a serene beach landscape. The painting shows a shore of a beach and a town in the distance. …show more content…
The palm tree had vivid green leaves and browned dry ones which to me expressed life. Beside it a stump of one that has been cut down which I deducted to be death of the natural. My mind flooded with thoughts about the hut as if I was piecing a puzzle together. The roof of the hut were shades of bright and dark red made up entirely of palm fond and beside it the boat that held the colors of the Dutch flag. No paradise is without drawbacks and St. Maarten is not an exception the Dutch, French and Spanish fought bloody battles over this island in an attempt to claim it as their own. The Treaty of Concordia in 1648 divided the island in two, split between the Dutch Sint Maarten and French Saint Martin. I started to associate the red roof to blood and the deeper I looked the more it became profoundly similar to just