A veteran artist is pleading with the Mia Mottley administration to establish the long-promised and “desperately needed” Barbados National Art Gallery (BNAG) a reality, as she expressed frustration that successive governments have failed to fulfil promises to the creative community.Heather-Dawn Scott made the appeal as she expressed concern that because of the absence of a permanent home for their work, artists and the amount of work they produce here are on the decline and Barbados is losing its creative people.“It is time, it is past time. It is past due,” she told Barbados TODAY as she reiterated the importance of having the BNAG up and running.“We desperately need one because the collections are just sitting there in the dark and have been for tens of years . . . . The public has paid for it through their taxes and there’ve been requests from collectors. Some of it is in government offices and embassies abroad, but the fact is that the arts here are in decline.