Denyse tomasos biography of rory

Trinidadian-Canadian painter (1964–2012)

Denyse Thomasos (October 10, 1964 – July 19, 2012) was a Trinidadian-Canadian painter known for her abstract-style wall murals that conveyed themes of slavery, confinement and the story of African and Asian Diaspora.

"Hybrid Nations" (2005) is one of her most notable pieces that features Thomasos' signature use of dense thatchwork patterning and architectonic images to portray images of American superjails and traditional African weavework.^[1][2]

Early life and education

Denyse Thomasos was born in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago to Jennie Ann (née Leiba) and Raymond Garth Thomas's, who attained his BS in University College of the West Indies and was a high school teacher at a boys' school.^[3]

Thomasos and her family emigrated to Canada in 1970, settling in Toronto, Ontario, near Lawrence Avenue West and Keele Street.^[3] Her father obtained a master's degree in physics fr