Stanwyck E. Cromwell is a Guyanese-born, second-generation visual artist and a retired Adjunct Art Professor, who has spent the vast amount of his adult life in the United States of America, and currently resides in the state of Connecticut. Despite his lengthy absence from his country of origin, his memories of Guyana are abundantly rich. A visual kaleidoscope from this exotic place is continually referenced in his work. Saturated colors and patterns reveal themselves in his paintings, drawings, and mixed-media works. Sometimes his subject matter is abstract forms, while others are about the self. His self-portraits are both autobiographical and mythical mirrors, through which he is able to reflect on his past by reminiscing about the Guyana that he once knew as a child.

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Wide noses and thick lips are frequent in most of his work, not as cultural stereotypes, but to emphasize the natural beauty of African features, which he finds sculpturally strong, ruggedly handsome, and spiritually connected to his work. Most of the symbols used in his work are used metaphorically and vary in interpretation.

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