Stanley Greaves (born 1934)[1] is a Guyanese painter and writer who is one of the Caribbean's most distinguished artists.
"[3][dead link]Greaves was born in a "tenement yard" on Carmichael Street, Georgetown, Guyana.
He was elected a Distinguished Honourable Fellow at University of the West Indies Cave Hill Campus in 2003 and it was extended.
[4] As an artist Greaves works mainly in painting, but has also produced sculpture, drawings, prints and pottery.
He won a gold medal for painting in the Barbados entry at the Santo Domingo Bienniale.
2018 he showed photographs of 14 sculptures -The El dorado Series sponsored by Diamond distilleries.
He has also done pen and ink illustrations for poems of Martin Carter, Ian Mc David, both distinguished Poets of the Caribbean.
He co-authored, with Anne Walmsley, Art in the Caribbean: An Introduction, published in 2010 by New Beacon Books.