Delford Terry, also known as Terry D. Wilson, is a Jamaican-born artist who resides in New York. His practice is rooted in cultural identity and the transformations that shape it. He does not separate the Caribbean and American influences in his life; instead, they flow together in the images he creates, grounded in memory and hope.

The pencil, the paper, the colored dirt—that’s where his work begins. These elemental materials carry weight, history, and presence. They connect him to human experience and to the stories that shaped him.

Delford practices in various media such as watercolor, pencil, mixed media, and occasionally found objects that help him reveal the idea he is conveying. Each work begins in abstraction, where he fills the form with imagery that keeps him interested—letting the arrangements push it forward and, in shaping it, finding the freedom to break away from the traditional horizontal and vertical plane. He often depicts family and friends shaped by both Caribbean and American culture—never separating the two, with history and influence that seep into what he creates. Some works are infused with bone, stone, wax, collage, or rope—materials chosen for their symbolic power and emotional pull. Others stay minimal, but even the simplest line is more than likeness—it is presence and what’s left unsaid.

Delford has exhibited at the Court House Cultural Center in Stuart, FL; the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art (formerly the Polk Museum of Art), Art Miami, the A. E. Backus Gallery and Museum, and The Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach. He was a semifinalist at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery’s 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition. His work is represented in both public and private collections—including the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art and Harlem Yellow—and has been featured in multiple publications.

In the end, the work says what it says, and he leaves the rest with the viewer.