Space Gallery St Barth is delighted to announce an exhibition of new paintings and sculptures by French-Caribbean artist Remy de Haenen Island in my soul. This latest body of work continues his celebrated exploration of the island’s spirit through bold color-block compositions, blending memory, emotion, and atmosphere.

De Haenen’s instantly recognizable style—saturated blocks of color, stylized silhouettes, and simplified forms—returns in full force, presenting idyllic scenes of St Barth’s everyday beauty: parasols scattered across beaches, quiet swims under golden skies, lazy summer picnics, and glimpses of tropical foliage rustling in the breeze. More than mere representations, these paintings are intimate reflections—visual echoes of a life lived deeply in rhythm with the island.

The “Island in my soul” is a visual memoir – an exhibition where light, salt, fruits, parasols, beach, foliage, trees, etc. are represented into bold blocks of color and form.

Raised in St. Barth, I returned through painting to the tactile rhythm of the island: to the trees whispering in the breeze, the sun warming up the leaves, the curve of a road entering Gustavia, a small boat.

These works are composed with block painting technique that distill memories into vibrant geometry. Each canvas is a surface in which color touches emotion, where the tropics are present but also felt – like heat on one’s skin, like the sea sprays our lips, or finding sand in your pockets when you return home. This is not just the island I know.

It is the one that lives in my soul.

(R de Haenen)

A native of the Caribbean, de Haenen draws from a lifetime of impressions shaped by the natural rhythms, sensuality, and simplicity of island living. His paintings blur the boundary between real and remembered, evoking both the vividness of a moment and the hazy warmth of nostalgia. There is a cinematic quality in these works, a lyrical stillness that recalls Hockney’s dreamscapes or Wesselmann’s pop-infused intimacy—yet they remain unmistakably his own. The exhibition also includes a selection of sculptural pieces—delicate, layered forms painted on transparent acrylic plates that transform flat imagery into floating, dimensional vignettes. These sculptural “gems” are tactile homages to the vibrancy of Caribbean life, each one blooming like a memory brought to life.