Artists Bio
Nathan Downer was born in 1994 in Annatto Bay, Saint Mary, Jamaica. He is a visual artist based in Saint George’s, Grenada. Downer has participated in both private and public commissions, his most notable being a public art mural commissioned by the government of Grenada at Quarantine Point Recreational Park. He works mainly in the acrylic medium on canvas but also experiments with other mediums to create interesting marks and textures, adding to the visual appeal of his artwork. He describes himself as a figurative painter who values emotional honesty in his creative expressions and the power of color to convey the depth of human experiences.
His work has been featured in Art 4 Any magazine and Art Bar Grenada. His most recent exhibition, titled “Resilience, the Epicenter of Femininity,” showcases 20 artworks celebrating women’s enduring strength and quiet courage. This series honors their vital role in the foundation of society and family, highlighting the powerful, often unseen resilience that shapes and sustains our homes and communities and is essential to the development of future generations.
‘Serenity’
Price: 1499 EC / 555USD – Size: 25 x 24 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
“Serenity” is an artwork that focuses on finding peace through self-control. It uses black and white colors to show spiritual clarity and golden shades that represent warmth and divinity. The main figure is an Afro-haired woman in a honey-colored dress, standing at a point of change, framed by a yellow portal that symbolizes transformation and rebirth. Serenity is a powerful choice, not just a way to escape. It’s about being intentionally strong, where gentleness acts as protection and beauty reveals deeper truths.
‘A Touch of Red’
Price: 1499 EC / 555USD – Size: 26 x 21 inches
Acrylic on Canvas
“A Touch of Red” highlights the strong presence of women through its use of contrast, texture, and careful design. The main character is a woman with beautifully detailed Afro hair and expressive brown eyes, representing timeless beauty and deep emotions. This piece explores the idea of quiet rebellion, showing how a simple touch of red can turn silence into a strong message, grayscale into feelings, and a flat surface into a rich story.
‘Tribute’
Price: 1897 EC / 700USD – Size: 2×3 ft
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
“Tribute” is a visual representation of both personal and collective legacy. The artwork features a woman in profile, her monochrome blue skin symbolizes deep memories and introspection. She wears a headwrap that showcases her cultural identity and a desire to break away from traditional norms. “Tribute” captures the balance between history and future possibilities, encouraging us to remember and reflect on our own legacies.
‘Veneration’
Price:1899 EC / 700 USD – Size: 2×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Veneration” is a tribute to quiet strength and embodied grace. Set against a glowing backdrop of orange and yellow, the woman radiates warmth and vitality. Abstract impressions of white roses bloom across the background are symbols of purity and, remembrance. This piece honors the sanctity of femininity as not just beauty, but power. “Veneration” invites viewers to pause, lift their gaze, and witness the sacred in stillness.
‘The Grandeur’
Price: 1895 EC / 700 USD – Size: 2×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“The Grandeur” captures a sense of quiet majesty through its portrayal of a figure with her back turned, suggesting a sense of grace and poise that does not require approval. The artwork features intersecting black lines that form a cross, drawing attention to a central point where four delicate white flowers are placed, adding softness and welcoming a new beginning. They serve as a reminder that beauty can flourish in carefully defined spaces. This piece emphasizes that true grandeur is not about flashy displays but rather the strength found in restraint and the elegance of simplicity.
‘Belles Grenada’
Price: 2397 EC / 887 USD – Size: 3×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Grenadian Belles” is a celebration of heritage, harmony, and strength, rooted in the vibrance of Grenadian identity. Each woman in this composition stands poised and graceful, her skin rendered in greyscale monochrome to unify their presence in timeless elegance. Yet it is their dresses, green, yellow, and red that speak most vividly, echoing the iconic hues of Grenada’s flag and the spirited resilience it represents. This piece is a visual sonnet to Grenadian womanhood, proud, powerful, and profoundly beautiful.
‘Decorous’
Price: 1399 EC / 520 USD – Size: 1.9 x 2 ft
Acrylic on canvas
“Decorous” embodies elegance as a quiet assertion, a portrait of refined strength veiled in grace. The central character, a Black woman rendered in greyscale, exudes presence through posture and palette. Her green hat, dress, and gloves form a seamless triad of formality, yet within the folds, flickers of neon green awaken a modern undercurrent of vitality tucked discreetly beneath tradition. Intersecting lines in dark green and gold create a quiet geometry that anchors the composition, drawing the eye toward its core where white and gold roses bloom at their crossing. These flowers speak of duality, restraint and richness, purity and opulence. This piece honors the art of restraint of holding grace without excess, of signaling depth without disruption. “Decorous” is not just dignified elegance; it is deliberate and, in that deliberation, it reveals the grandeur of stillness and the subtle fire beneath it.
‘Nature & Beauty’
Not for sale – Size: 30 x 18 inch
Acrylic on Canvas
This portrait portrays the delicate beauty and inner strength of a woman adorned with pink roses in her hair. The roses, symbols of grace and elegance, intertwine with her flowing locks, adding a touch of nature’s splendor to her serene expression. The soft, pastel hues create a harmonious and ethereal atmosphere, inviting viewers to reflect on the profound connection between beauty and the natural world. This portrait portrays the delicate beauty and inner strength of a woman, adorned with pink roses in her hair. The roses are symbols of grace and elegance, intertwined with her flowing locks, adding a touch of nature’s splendor to her serene expression.
‘Reflection’
Not for sale – Size: 12×7 inch
Acrylic on Canvas
“Reflection” is a profound monochromatic portrait that embodies the essence of identity and self-discovery, featuring a black woman adorned with vibrant red flowers in her hair against a luminous gold background. This artwork is part of the ‘Resilience: The Epicenter of Femininity’ series, which delves into the multifaceted journey of womanhood, emphasizing the internal struggles and triumphs that define personal growth.
‘Resplendence’
Price: 540 EC / 199 USD – Size: 12×7 inch
Acrylic on Canvas
“Resplendence” portrays the radiance and grace of women. It illuminates the delicate balance between power and tenderness, characteristics that embody the essence of femininity. Bold strokes and rich textures reflect the responsibilities they carry, while luminous hues celebrate their love, beauty, and perseverance. Inspired by the single mothers and matriarchs who shape generations, “Resplendence”, one of the “Resilience: The Epicenter of Femininity” series, is a testament to will-power, self-awareness, and the radiant glow of a woman who refuses to be confined to societal and cultural stereotypes.
‘Beauty through pain’
Price: 1897 EC / 700 USD – Size: 2×3 ft
Acrylic on canvas
This portrait centers on a powerful female figure whose back is turned against hardship and poverty, a story often told of her heritage; instead is now imprinted with the map of the Caribbean islands. The map weaves together the shapes of the islands, symbolizing a deep-rooted connection and unity among the nations. Dangling from her ear is a bold earring in the shape of the African continent, a constant reminder of ancestral origins and the enduring ties that bind the Caribbean diaspora to Africa. She is crowned with a vibrant hibiscus flower, a nod to the shared natural beauty and cultural symbolism found across all Caribbean islands. Her face slightly turned in remembrance of the journey of her people as a collective and in hope of a future that is promising.
‘Aplomb’
Price: 999 EC / 370 USD – Size: 1×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Aplomb” embodies grace under pressure. She stands in a vivid red dress, bold, arresting, unapologetically grounded, representing the heartbeat of Grenada. Her form is composed, her expression serene, a visual anchor within a radiating field of yellow and green. The palette mirrors the Grenadian flag, creating a triadic dialogue where she becomes the vessel for strength, sovereignty, and unwavering pride. This painting is an ode to dignity as it reveres the poise of a woman who carries the weight of history with elegance and ease.
‘Verdure’
Price: 999 EC / 370 USD – Size: 1×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Verdure” stands at the intersection of identity, heritage, and quiet resilience. A woman emerges, cloaked in rich green, a visual meditation on rootedness. Her presence is calm, her posture assured, as if absorbing the layered energy of the red and yellow backdrop behind her. Each shade mirrors a facet of the Grenadian flag, a constellation of national essence, the wisdom of generations, and the memory of sacrifice. Her green dress anchors her as the breath of nature, the pulse of tradition, and the poised strength of identity informed by the past but not defined by it.
‘Prolepsis’
Price: 3588 EC / 1328 USD – Size: 3×4 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Prolepsis” is an invocation of tomorrow. The pregnant woman, portrayed in profile, embodies continuity and grace. Her form is dignified, her gaze unseen, yet her presence commands reflection. Across her chest, pink and red roses bloom in gentle defiance, shields of softness, symbols of love, maternal power, and the complex beauty of creation. Each petal whispers of tenderness and fortitude, rendering vulnerability not as weakness, but as a sacred threshold. This is not a portrait of a single woman, but of every woman who has ever carried a future within her. In “Prolepsis”, gestation becomes a metaphor for vision. It honors the body as prophecy, the feminine as force, and motherhood as a sovereign act of duty.
‘Rose’
Price: 1887 EC / 699 USD – Size: 2×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
She wears a red silk dress, liquid flame against cool blue, passion layered over restraint. “Rose” presents a reckoning with aesthetic legacy. It disrupts classical ideologies by centering Black femininity not as a muse, but as an intimate dialogue on visibility adorned by self-determined elegance. Through “Rose”, I assert that beauty can be radical, and color itself can carry narrative. It’s a tribute to the women who live in contrast, who move between tenderness and assertion, who bloom on their own terms. This canvas is an ode to self-possession, where every element, color, texture, and posture speaks to a woman who chooses how she is seen.
‘Ductile Strength’
Price: 2499 EC / 925 USD – Size: 3×3 ft
Acrylic on canvas
“Ductile Strength” is a portrait of resilience shaped not by hardness, but by grace. The central figure, a monochrome blue woman with striking blue eyes, radiates a quiet intensity. Her gaze, though partially obscured by the cascading yellow of her Afro, remains piercing. She possesses the power of adaptability that resists conformity, while understanding that true strength is found in openness, vulnerability, and sometimes in trusting others to take the lead. This piece is an offering to the nuanced woman, the one who withstands, transforms, and defines strength on her own terms. In “Ductile Strength”, vulnerability and vibrancy unite into a singular visual language, one that reveres emotion as resilience and softness as steel.
‘Weight of Culture’
Price: 2499 EC / 925 USD – Size: 3×3
Acrylic on Canvas
“The Weight of Culture” meditates on heritage and identity through a blue-toned portrait of a woman gazing upward in introspection. Wrapped in the Grenadian flag’s vivid tricolor, the headwrap symbolizes ancestry, resistance, and diasporic pride. Set against a soft pink and white background, the composition balances tension and tranquility, pink redefining femininity with boldness, and white offering contemplative space. The piece invites you to explore emotional depth, cultural memory, and the complexities of belonging.
‘Dichotomy’
Price: 1897 EC / 700 USD – Size: 2×3 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Dichotomy” is a portrait of fractured truths and converging silences. Two greyscale faces, one frontal, one in profile, merged by sharp gold shapes symbolizing fragmented truths. Set against a stark black background, the composition draws from a well-worn Caribbean saying, “there are always two sides to a story”, and the truth often gets lost in between. Each woman’s face represents a partial narrative, belief shaped by bias and, recollection tinted by self-preservation. The gold isn’t clarity, it’s confession. But what it omits is as poignant as what it reveals. The figures blur and fuse, not for unity, but for confrontation, between how we’re seen, and who we are; between the story told, and the story felt.
‘Windows’
Price: 1699 EC / 667 USD – Size: 2×2 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Windows” is a meditation on perception, presence, and the silent language of the gaze. In this portrait, the eyes are not simply features; they are thresholds. They hold memory, longing, and unspoken truths. They are the windows through which the world is both witnessed and reflected. “Windows” asks, “What do we reveal when we look”? What do we conceal when we’re seen? It is a portrait of quiet power, where the eyes become portals through which intention, emotion and character is revealed.
‘Twinkle’
Price: 1697 EC / 628 USD – Size: 2×2 ft
Acrylic on Canvas
“Twinkle” is a portrait of understated brilliance, a moment suspended between mystery and knowing. A soft smirk plays at her lips, suggesting a story half-told, a truth half-kept. Set against a gold background, she radiates without spectacle. The aura of gold frames her as luminous, timeless, and self-possessed. In contrast, her muted skin tone, the gold amplifies the twinkle in her expression, that flicker of wit, wisdom, and inner fire. This piece honors the power of subtlety. “Twinkle” is not about grandeur but the wisdom that lives in restraint. The kind of beauty that doesn’t ask to be seen, but is impossible to ignore. A reminder that the smallest gestures carry the deepest truths.
‘My Secret Space’
Price: 1080 EC / 400 USD, Size: 12” x 24”
Acrylic on Canvas