Daphne Meyer

Painter and sculptor, Daphne was born March 11th, 1966 in Port-au-Prince.
She studied Graphic Design at the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale (FL) and Plastic Arts at the University of Quebec in Montreal. She also participated in workshops on bronze casting in the Creuse region and Hossegor, France

Influenced by both naive art and by artists such as Dubuffet, Niki de Saint-Phale, Botello, or Fernando Botero Daphne painting is expressed by generous shapes and contrasting colors. Her open mind and curiosity has brought her to mix techniques and materials to give a radiant life to the characters that populate her creations. They arise from her creative imagination or are born of daily events. Her work continue to attract its audience into a surprising and enchanting world. The artist knows how to rekindle childhood memories with her round or long, joyful or malicious fellows. Her work never leaves indifferent.

Daphne has been exhibiting in Haiti since 1996. She participated in the ICA Fair in New York in 2007. In 2014, with Promart Haiti, she participated in the group exhibition “Meli Melo” at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington DC and Payne’s Galery in Philadelphia.