Orange Park #2 

Barrington Watson made this landscape painting, Orange Park #2, with oil on canvas. Here, the familiar tropes of landscape painting are re-imagined within the context of post-colonial Jamaica. The lush vegetation, rendered with visible brushstrokes and warm, earthy tones, references a specific location, but also hints at the broader relationship between culture and place. Made in a time when Jamaica was seeking to define its own identity after independence, Watson's choice of subject matter carries particular weight. Landscape painting has historically been associated with nation building and cultural identity. For Watson, capturing the Jamaican landscape was not just an aesthetic pursuit but also a way of engaging with questions of cultural heritage and national identity. By researching postcolonial theory and Jamaican history, we can understand the painting as a commentary on the interplay between landscape, identity, and the politics of representation.