MIND’S EYE CENTRE – HISTORIC SITE & GALLERY

The Mind’s Eye Centre is the childhood home of the intuitive artist and visionary Gladwyn K. ‘Miss Lassie’ Bush, MBE, who lived there until her death in 2003. Now operated by the Cayman National Cultural Foundation, both the historic cottage and the adjoining duplex serve as a public space for tours and the public display of some of Miss Lassie’s most recognisable artworks.

A fourth-generation Caymanian, Gladwyn K. ‘Lassie’ Bush began painting at the age of 62 after what she describes as a visionary experience. Strong Christian themes run through her work, which she painted not only on canvas but also on the walls, windows, and furnishings of her home.

Miss Lassies is considered to be a central part of the Caribbean intuitives’ canon. Examples of her work formed part of the UNESCO-supported travelling exhibition of contemporary Caribbean Art, ‘Carib Art’, in 1993, and she is one of the artists profiled in books on intuitive art worldwide: Raw Creation (Phaidon Press), Caribbean Art (Thames and Hudson) and Fantasy Worlds (Benedikt Taschen Verlag). Her work is in private collections in England, the United States, Jamaica, South Africa, Germany and the Cayman Islands, and in the collection of the American Visionary Arts Museum in Baltimore, Maryland.

Mrs. Bush was awarded a national honour, Member of the British Empire (MBE), in 1997 and received the award during the Queen’s Birthday celebrations in Grand Cayman on 15 June 1998.