Goa is abounding with creative talent in virtually every field. Harnessing it to fruition is sadly lacking in these parts.

A young group by dynamic Alexyz, the popular daily news cartoonist, set in motion a small, informal collective of artists, craftsmen and photographers in Siolim. The name “Coconut Brush” was conceived by India’s topmost rock artist Remo Fernandes from Fernandes Vaddo in Siolim. They put up some of the rare joint-exhibitions encompassing paintings, caricatures, arborics, coco-craft, photographs, et al.

Not satisfied by exciting the villagers of Siolim, Anjuna, Assagao and the neighborhood, they even held shows at the Menezes Braganza Art Gallery several times, and even hosted painter Harilal Panchal from Vapi in Gujarat at the Kala Academy. Now they feel it’s time to reach our to people beyond our borders and shores by going on-line.

The enthusiastic efforts of Alexyz and his friends became an inspiration for quite a few students in the village to join fine arts. Today there are enough young and proficient painters in Siolim to fill an art gallery with watchable stuff.

The Coconut Brush Art Gallery has been designed to bring to light the imaginative, aesthetic works of these artists.

Most of them have also been swept away by the passion for art. They hardly ever miss any exhibition in Goa. Several art galleries too have sprung up in recent years. Hence the on-line Coconut Brush Art Gallery will exhibit the works of art seen at the exhibitions held now and then in Panjim, Calangute and elsewhere.

The Coconut Brush Art Gallery gallery is primarily meant to be a pleasant sight on our host site Goacom. You can jolly well expect the best of not only Goa but works by even European artists who display here from time to time, particularly at the Galeria de Belles Artes at the Art Chamber run by Yolanda and Rudolph Kammermier at Gavravaddo in Calangute.