Gladwyn Bush

Gladwyn Klosking Bush MBE (14 March 1914 – 24 November 2003), also known as Miss Lassie, was a Caymanian folk painter.

[1] Gladwyn was born in South Church Street, George Town, Cayman Islands in March 1914 to Richard and Margaret Bush and was one of ten children.

Others remember her having broken glass bottles lining her fence due to a belief it would protect her household from spirits.

Henry Mutoo, one of her biggest supporters even stated “reputation that she had was like a lot of older people – if you get on her wrong side she would curse you.

[3] In 1997, Bush was appointed to the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours List "for services to art in the Cayman Islands".