Biography

Dorman Cornelius Stubbs was born on February 15th 1961, in Nassau, The Bahamas. Inspired by the beautiful market range of Downtown, Nassau in the 1970’s, where his parents worked as fruit vendors, he began to draw at an early age. At the age of 19, Dorman held his first two–man exhibition, at House & Gardens Gallery, Lyford Cay; the proceeds would later finance his art education. In 1981, he furthered his studies at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, in Philadelphia, USA, where his resilience earned him the John R. Conner’s award in graphics.

Upon returning home in the summer of 1984, Dorman began his professional career as an impressionist painter. By the late 1980’s, his natural ability to vividly depict kaleidoscopic sceneries, had already won the admiration of both local and international art enthusiasts, collectors and fellow artisans. In 1993, Dorman staged the first Bahamian Cuban art exhibition (two-man show) at Bacardi. Dorman’s most celebrated works portray the ethnological aspects of Bahamian culture. His compulsion to subject matters depicting spirituality is profoundly inspired by his Pentecostal upbringing.

In 1985, 1986 and 1996, Dorman was an art instructor at Finco Art Summer Workshop.

His exhibitions include:

• Timber Treasures (1991)
• Colors (1993)
• Out of the Shadows (1995)
• Splash of Colors (1997)
• Impressionist (1999)

Dorman established Spectrum Fine Art Gallery In 1989, located Charlotte Street and Bay Street, Tropical Gallery, located in the International Bizarre, Bay Street in 1989, and Artist Gallery, located Marlborough Street, Nassau in 1991.The artist currently works form his Cable Beach studio.