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I also bought many books and pored over art and literature. However, skills and techniques are just one part of the equation. I learnt about these, as well as more on art history during sunny afternoons with cups of coffee. I was lucky to be able to hear these two great painters talk about technique, skill and their favorite painters. I trained as an apprentice under Jason Montinola, who was a good friend of Ivan Roxas. My mission is to find new ways to reconnect.Ĭould you talk about how you developed your technical skills in painting, given that you were not trained formally in this? The world is bigger than just us humans, and there are others that are equally as important. And for me, a relevant, timeless message that I want to deliver with my work is the connection we have with nature, and the need to revive that. Art is refinement even in its brutishness and destitution. The ultimate ideal is to find a higher order that is above the chaos of modern life. It is the art that keeps me going, and nothing else. I joke that if I had known it would be this bad, I would not have done it at all. Being away from both my parents and having to survive on my own after having such a conservative childhood was a huge wake-up call to the harsh realities of the world. Even though I quit after a semester, I continued painting.Ĭould you share how you’ve maintained your practice after getting into the art scene? What are the important factors that kept you going?įirst and foremost, I had to make it sustainable. After I graduated, I went to Manila under the guise of looking for a job and instead, enrolled in UP College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines. But because I knew what I wanted, I pulled off a “long con”. I wanted to drop out of university and I only stayed because of my parents. Thereafter, I longed for the forests and animals of my youth in Los Baños, a province three hours south of Manila, where canals have fishes, migratory birds flock overhead, butterflies flit about, and lizards, frogs and gigantic spiders abound. I had an awakening then, perhaps akin to the disorientation Karl Marx experienced upon observing the same sight: humans as mere units of economic production.

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In fact, most of my sketches are rough lines and words, rather than fully fleshed-out figures.įor my thesis, I had to time the minute actions of all the workers in a factory and figure out how to lessen the number of movements in order to increase productivity. At various points in my life, I had written, played music, and drew, and my first passion is writing and literature. I already knew from the start that I wanted to be in the creative field. Could you talk more about how you transitioned from this to making art? And at what point in your life did you decide to pursue a career in this field? You took Industrial Engineering for your undergraduate major from Ateneo de Davao University. Read our profile on Philippine artist Bree Jonson here. A&M's Fresh Faces is where we profile an emerging artist from the region every month and speak to them about how they kick-started their career, how they continue to sustain their practice and what drives them as artists.

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