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.