Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine October 2016 | Page 224
Joachim McMillan was born in Munich, St. Andrews on the island of Grenada. He left Grenada at the age of 24 and migrated to the USA to study business/technology. Joachim is a self-taught artist. His painting started as a child in Grenada during which time he developed his own style, painting with the palette knife and scoring it to give it a mosaic look. His style is therefore called
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‘MOZAYIC’. This technique makes the paint look like tiny tiles or glass. It is not a look you usually see with regular impressionism art. Most artists in the Caribbean paint realistic styles or mainly Caribbean real-life scenes., but Joachim wanted to be different. He was drawn to impressionism because, he says, the viewer can interpret many different images or effects from what is portrayed.