Stanley Greaves

As an artist Greaves works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery. He was awarded the Guyana national honour of the Golden Arrow of Achievement in 1975. He has exhibited at national level, winning several prizes, and has had one-man shows. He represented Guyana twice at the São Paulo Biennial and once at the Medellin Bienniale in Colombia. He has had major exhibitions in the UK (in 1999 his work was shown in the landmark exhibition curated by Gottfried Donkor, The Elders, alongside that of Brother Everald Brown of Jamaica)[3] and elsewhere in Europe, as well as throughout the Caribbean. He won a gold medal for painting in the Barbados entry at the Santo Domingo Bienniale. He has been exhibiting since arriving in North Carolina, USA, in 2008, at the Fayetteville Museum of Art, Moruca Gallery Washington, the University of Fayetteville, the State University of North Carolina. and Claflin University in South Carolina, the OAS in Washington, and Castellani House in Guyana.[5] In 2014 he celebrated his 80th birthday with an exhibition of 24 paintings based on his reading of the novels of the renowned Guyanese author Wilson Harris.The paintings were also shown at the OAS in 2015. He also won the gold medal for painting in the 2017 Guyana Visual Arts and Craft Exhibition where he declared it was his last showing in that exhibition. 2018 he showed photographs of 14 sculptures -The El dorado Series sponsored by Diamond distilleries. The actual works were shown at the OAS 2019.

Over the years his paintings have appeared on the cover of several books. He has also done pen and ink illustrations for poems of Martin Carter, Ian Mc David, both distinguished Poets of the Caribbean.

His collection of poems Horizons, published by Peepal Tree Press in 2002, won the Guyana Prize for Literature in the first book of poems category.[6] His most recent collection is The Poems Man (Peepal Tree Press, 2009). He co-authored, with Anne Walmsley, Art in the Caribbean: An Introduction, published in 2010 by New Beacon Books. "Haiku" is his third book. Each contains pen and ink drawings. He has also collaborated with Akima Mc Pherson of the University of Guyana to write a series of articles in the Sunday Stabroek on individual works in the Guyana National Collection.

In addition to being a painter and writer, Greaves also plays the classical guitar, self taught in the beginning until afforded the opportunity of studying for a year with Cuban guitarist Francisco Gonzalez, who was on a cultural exchange program and four years with Pam Frost of Barbados, during which time he'd composed several works for the guitar.