About the Artist
Gretchen Allen
1944–2019
Gretchen Allen, who lived in Cayman for 35 years, was an award-winning multimedia journalist, a radio and television broadcaster, a newspaper reporter and editor, a photographer, the Governor’s Social Secretary, as well as an actress and a jazz singer. Her diverse career included time as a correspondent for the Associated Press and numerous newspapers and magazines, covering an array of topics including food, wine, travel, major sporting events, and celebrity interviews. She served as an editor of United Nations documentation, worked for a renowned shark research laboratory in her hometown of Sarasota, Florida, and taught writing in the artists’ colony of San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Her photographs were shown at NGCI in the exhibition Through Ivan’s Eye in 2018 and in Cayman Brac in 2019.
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