326:(NGJ), During her career, she participated in many solo and group exhibitions, both internationally and throughout Jamaica. She exhibited at the Victoria Craft Market Tercentenary, at the NGJ's Biennial and Annual National exhibitions, and at the Institute of Jamaica's All Island shows in Kingston. She was part of the 1976 exhibition
177:(now OCAD University) from 1947 to 1951. She learned portraiture and developed her realistic watercolour style there. She was the first Black person to graduate from the university since its inception in 1876. In her thesis painting, her model was a Black woman who was wearing a traditional headwrap. She also studied at the
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154:. Her mother Lilieth Henriques was an oil painter and her father Llewellyn was a jeweler. She drew inspiration as an artist from her mother, who painted the landscape surrounding their estate and the plants that she grew.
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