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Visual artist Kianne Patrice Hutchinson, who creates custom pieces, says collaborating with Pantry-Coke and Spaces has always felt like a natural fit. “I met Janelle about five years ago, and since then we’ve both followed and supported each other’s journeys… So, when Spaces reached out about their auction in aid of hurricane victims and asked if I could donate pieces, it was an immediate, wholehearted yes,” she tells SO.
Hutchinson had three pieces in the event: two 12” x 15” digital art pieces in the silent auction, and a piece from her Waterfront Boys series in the live auction. All three pieces were sold, with The Waterfront Boys going to bidder #49 Dr Suzanne McDonald-Fowles. Bidder #35, Shunelle Nevers, Caribbean regional advisor at The Nature Conservancy, walked away with a 2016 George Rodney still life. Dr Toni Barnes, who shared bidding paddle #10 with her mum Moya Leiba-Barnes, secured Owen Beckford’s Woman Playing Guitar. Husband-and-wife bidders, Dr Vernon DaCosta and Dr Michelle Bailey-DaCosta, missed out on a weekend for two at any Sandals Resorts in Jamaica (a last-minute transfer from the silent to live auction), but successfully bid on a Flow iPhone 17 Air and a Gene Pearson Madonna black clay bust, respectively.
Other items to go under the gavel included a Deep Pore Facial and an Upper Body Massage from The Face Place, which went to nurse practitioner Kisha Wallace-Grant. Mother-daughter duo Beverley and Shara-Kay Kinlocke snagged the weekend for two at any Sandals Resorts in Jamaica and a 75” LG UHD 4K Smart AI ThinQ TV from ATL, individually.
Pantry-Coke says the auction “raised in excess of J$1,000,000,” and from that the team will be able to supply 30 mattresses, sheets, and pillows to families in need. In the end, every bid, every paddle raised, every moment of friendly competition, was all worth it, as winners not only took home something beautiful but contributed to someone else rebuilding a piece of their world.
Spaces Ltd Creative Director Janelle Pantry-Coke (right) secured a snap with University of Technology, Jamaica Senior Lecturer at the School of Hospitality & Tourism Management Rosalee Sawyers (left), and her daughter, attorney-at-law Dayna Sawyers Humes. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Philanthropist Lisa Brown perused items in the silent auction. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Mayberry Investments Ltd AVP – Sales Karen Hall (left) and impact manager at Iprint Digital Ltd Sophia Somers Williams tucked into brunch. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Visual artist Kianne Patrice Hutchinson — who was invited onstage by auctioneer Fabian Brown to share the inspiration behind The Waterfront Boys — declared it “a tribute to water often being the centre point of activity — an invitation to consider conservation and the environment”. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Mother-daughter bidders Beverley (left) and Shara-Kay Kinlocke (Photo: LH Multimedia)
From left: Dr Vernon DaCosta, attorney-at-law Dylan Coke, and Welds Infrastructure & Pavements Ltd principal Judy Welds (Photo: LH Multimedia)
Visual artist Kianne Patrice Hutchinson (left) celebrated with Dr Suzanne McDonald-Fowles, moments after McDonald-Fowles successfully bid on Hutchinson’s work, The Waterfront Boys. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
With each determined to own the Flow iPhone 17 Air, a bidding war ensued between (from left) bidder #27 Dr Michelle Bailey DaCosta, bidder #26 Linda Stewart Doman, and bidder #51 Shara-Kay Kinlocke.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Dr Michelle Bailey DaCosta (right), secured a Flow iPhone 17 Air. Director of customer experience at Flow Nyree Coke was responsible for the official handover. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
The Gene Pearson Bumpy Head Mask — one of the final items to go in the auction — went to bidder #10 Moya Leiba-Barnes (left). Spaces Ltd intern Tianna James was all smiles as she made the handover.(Photo: Karl Mclarty)
A quick tap of her American Express Platinum Card from Scotiabank and Shunelle Nevers’ payment was promptly processed. Assisting her was Spaces Ltd Service & Interior Decorator Jodi-Anne Paul (left). (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Spaces Jamaica Marketing Officer Toni Hibbert (left) shared the frame with bidder #10, Dr Toni Barnes, who secured Woman Playing Guitar by Jamaican fine artist Owen Beckford. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
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Caribbean regional advisor at The Nature Conservancy Shunelle Nevers became the proud owner of a 2016 George Rodney. (Photo: Karl Mclarty)
Engine Room Brand House and OG Spaces customer CEO Tishan Lee and her daughter Mia Lee (Photo: LH Multimedia)
Commissioned Land Surveyor Karsten Johnson, and his wife, RUBiS Energy Jamaica Engineering Manager Kamala Johnson were also out to support. (Photo: LH Multimedia)
