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I am Dion Jacob. 

Dion O. Jacob...

also known as Sendibaba Morathi (“wise leader”), the African name given to him at a naming ceremony, was born in Trinidad and Tobago, the

islands of the Caribbean where he explains he received the gift of “want”. Wanting, like any noble person to use his God given talents to make this world a better place; wanting to know the truth that wisdom has to offer; wanting to aid in global healing of nations and its  children.

Dion has been drawing and producing art since elementary school, drawing cars and super heroes for his  schoolmates .Yet it was not until moving to the United States, in 2000,  that he became serious about his talent.  Shortly thereafter, Dion steadily watched and learned from his very own father, Oriely Jacob (a well known artist and art teacher in Tobago) and Wilcox Morris (a noted contemporary artist).  It is under their tutelage and through studying and appreciating artistic greats such as Bosch and David Boothman.

Since moving to the Washington, DC., metropolitan area, Dion has produced countless pieces that have been displayed in galleries in Washington, DC, New York, California, and Maryland. Most recently, Dion’s masterpieces have been displayed in galleries in the Brookland area of Washington, DC, including Roxanne’s ARTiques, Abstract Art, and Dance Place. Dion works out of his studio in the Brookland area, his refuge for creativity and creation.  

Dion is also a musician, playing a number of hand and stick instruments in the Djembe orchestra including, djembe, djun djun, songba, kenkeni, and bells. Dion has traveled the East Coast playing the drums as well as throughout Trinidad and Tobago and across the Atlantic. Dion uses his Caribbean culture and traditions to inspire his musicianship and his palette knife.

Dion‘s artistic mission is “to portray through the arts, the vast array of resources that we have in our cultures and our traditions. For we are one family and have only one world to share, and when we can enjoy the fact that we all exist for good, then there’ll be no need for war.”