Artists

Tang Hong Lee

Fly Me To The Stars
Hong Lee is an artist who understands colour in all its deep, vibrant, and dazzling nuances, as a multi-level tool to be used in a variety of ways. He believes colour is much more a verb than a noun. Colour is a superb medium in which to communicate and to draw in the viewer. - Marybeth Ramey "Colour helps me to celebrate my love affair with the life around me, and to interprete the wonders of nature onto my canvas and bring it right back to the viewer." says the artist

Jinggoy Buensuceso

Sam Penaso

Filipino artist Sam Penaso creates enigmatic portraits of people juxtaposed with letters and numbers which are motivated by technology and communications. He uses a technique to create relief-like impressions on the canvas surface, resulting in a fluidity of form. The symbolism of the human face is an unending quest of man's abilities - reading, writing, exploring the unknown and attaining the impossible.

Rene Robles & Manny Garibay - From Interaction to Fusion

Two Filipino artists acclaimed for their unorthodox artistic expression will come together for a two- man show entitled Fusion of Rene Robles + Manny Garibay on April 24, 2009 to exhibit for the first time their fusion works. Their unique fusion works are collaborative paintings which show the artistic style of both artists in a single canvas.

Waldemar Kolbusz

At an exhibition of the 'New York School' painters (Motherwell, Rothko, Klein) in Tokyo and a visit to the Rothko room at the Tate. Kolbusz explains " I remember being drawn into the images and being almost aghast at how immensely powerful they were. I was dizzy. They confirmed my suspicions that the sort of painting I was interested in doing contained expression and feeling over exactness and formula."

Liz McKay

The music and dancing from the jazz & swing era and the architectural works from the Art Nouveau period influenced Liz McKay's work. Elements like arches, awnings & lighting are laid out as details in her paintings. Her work is about love, music & Casablanca - style cool. Each painting is a small drama, a moment of intimacy captured before it changes.

Edwin Wilwayco

His unstinting abstraction has avoided repetitiveness and predictability by two avenues: depth and breadth. The former shows the artist's evolving maturity and dynamically deepening sensibility. The latter envinces his artistic integrity through tireless exploration of mediums, shapes and forms. - Lito B. Zulueta

Rene Robles

The Art Of Making Visible
Through the seemingly trivial, marginal, and unpretentious objects of the everyday, the art of Filipino artist Rene Robles causes us to reflect on the subtleties of time, space, and memory as central elements in the complexity of the human narrative and individual identity. His art and his meanings are multi-layered-formal,personal,and social - which are steps to personal and cultural empowerment. - Alice Guillermo (Art Critic)

Pete Jimenez

He sees the potential of found objects (iron in this case), pick the pieces that he likes, bring them back where he hammer and weld them in his garage. Filipino sculptor Pete Jimenez would reconfigured the metals with humor and imagination, smacked with eccentricity.

Rico Lascano

Water Dance
Where this latest series of works diverges is in his new treatment and approach to the water -image. Where once it was all stillness and placidity, now the waters are performative, roused to a state of exuberance and celebration. Thus, the so called Water Dance paintings, referenced by a wildly choreographic energy, a change in sensation is immediate. The water surface has been disrupted, now erupting into broken pools of aqueous grayish colours, still runny and bleeding, but blossoming into unexpected floral formations. Brushstrokes are swished to-and-fro,squeezing droplets from restless bristles.
 
From a walden pond stillness, the artist leads the viewer to a swirling flourish of pure abstraction. From a classical serenity and refinement, the viewer steps into a jazzy gyration of free-wheeling shapes. From a limpid quietude, the painting breaks into a celebratory song like a voice trailing the whiplash of a conductor's baton.

Soon Lai Wai

A conversation between Artist and Lotus
"The paintings of Soon Lai Wai are a refreshing confluence of traditional and contemporary themes, where the effusive colouring of impressionism coalesces with the subtle realism of late imperial China. Both stimulating and soothing, they evoke a range of cosmopolitanism and maturity beyond his years." - Richard L. Davies
 
From muddy origins to a pure unsullied bloom. In his heart the lotus was the most beautiful of all flowers. Traditional Chinese painting influences the artistic style of  Soon Lai Wai. The artist uses oil as a medium, to convey his feelings and affection for the lotus.

Dragica Milunovic

Milunovic paintings aimed to intrigue the viewer with an illusion of depth imbued with movement, and to convey a feeling of transcendence. "My practice is influenced by a minimalist, process-based aesthetic and its central technical concern is mark making." said the artist. "I explore a defined range of mark making through the investigation of its materiality, scale & colour. I work with a specifically restrictive marking methodology that is immediately evident on viewing the works."

Marcial Pontillas

Marcial Pontillas continues to explore the human spirit with the claustrophobic humanscapes as its metaphor. Aside from paintings, Marcial makes sculptures, installation, and video. His works reflect his sensitivity towards the urban life's seemingly suffocating existence. In the traffic congestion of human bodies and machines, the "Worst" of our species seems to manifest and fester. However, is this chaos a part of the cycles of transcendence, our search for "Worth"?

More than that, he also sees this dog-eat-dog world with faceless masses in need of a greater change, where he wants the audience to feel this "Worst" of the daily grind and propel us to seek a truly better life, not just for our individual selves, but to the "Worth" of all.

Jane McKay

McKay's interest in the landscape is as a combination of elements, colours and textures which combine to create a vastness of spiritual expression. The expressive, abstract responses to the expansive natural environment both formally and in terms of content, seek to yield to the energy and spiritual power of the landscape,presenting an engagement and acknowledgement with the intuitive creative process. McKay's abstract landscape paintings reveal elements of colour field abstraction and expressionism.The works themselves evolve through the gradual layering of textures, monochromatic colours and glazes.

Lim Ah Cheng

To Lim Ah Cheng, the horse is his muse, bidding him to come hither. For over 10 years now, he has had this love affair with the stately beast, capturing her every move and mood. Sometimes he lovingly casts his eye on just one of the species, prancing in mid-air, at other times, all we see is the maelstrom of dust occasioned by thundering hooves and flying manes. - Helen Ann Peters

"The horse to me is a beautiful intelligent animal," says the artist. " It is pure poetry in motion when it gallops. I love the way its torso moves in tandem with its legs, tail and mane. One would think after so many years of painting horses, I would get tired, but no. I could go on forever delineating this majestic animal, and still find some other facet to hold my interest."

Deryk Stronach

Each of his artworks has a story. Sometimes the story is presented to you and sometimes you have to look or ask for it. The space he creates is as important as the artwork itself. He believes that art is not created in a vacuum. He does not seek inspiration but allows it to come to him from his environment.

Cobie Cruz

Portrait Of Rain
Look at each piece in this prolific series without its title and it is pure abstraction : an artist exploring colour and brush stroke for its own expression. The results are massive beyond their size. Stunning colours achieve movements; varying textures shift depths and light. One senses landscape, shadowed strokes of colour. The mind reaches for what is subtly but persistently behind the veil. - Adele Estrada

Benjie Cabangis

Cabangis abstract paintings and collages are a continuing reflection of a sense of loss, recollection and the passing of time, which brings the viewer to a world that is both contemplative and serene. His works constantly echo references to art history from different places and time. Within each of the works, there is an engaging juxtaposition of colours and quiet thoughts coupled with transparencies, translucencies and patterns, inviting the viewer into decoding the allusions behind the visual, and how the marks on a pictorial plane may also be viewed as an imprint of the past.

Gerry Ingco

The reductivism aesthetic that informs the works of Gerrado Ingco sets the viewer on a path of discovery; one that is filled with memory and emotion and embedded in time much like an archaeological find. Swathes of unassuming earth tones lend the paintings its simplicity and rawness. The artist intervenes with his dynamic gesture, carving deep lines and subtle engravings on the rough- hewn surface of the canvas; giving the paintings a dimensional quality. Through these works Ingco seeks to understand the fundamental aspects of painting - colour, brush work and surface and the preference for sublimal effect over beauty.

Ling Yang Chang

A graduate in Chinese studies, Yang Chang infuses his paintings with some of his most private philosphical thoughts and beliefs; a lively blend of Zen Buddhism, Zhuangzi and Confucius. Yang Chang finds a natural affinity for Chinese brush painting, with its close attention to beauty of lines, poetic resonance and philosophical depth. As the artist himself says, "In this medium, I want to be a complete artist in the Chinese scholarly tradition, carving my own seals, practicing my own calligraphy, inscribing my own verses. I believe my work is characterised by a delicate balance of Chinese and Western influences. In the free rein of Western Abstract painting, the fine lines and tonal qualities of Chinese ink painting are never absent."

Joey Ibay

Ibay as of late persued his art and exhibited outstanding portraiture showing the influences of van gogh, Lucien Freud and Frank Auerbach. Ibay's art holds an identity all his own, using layer of brightly coloured acrylics and oil to transfix the viewer to the presence and essence of his subjects. A figurative expressionist by heart, he has won critical respect for his unique gift of transforming the human face into a provocative terrain of emotions.

Tan Seng Kok

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Raymond Legaspi

The characters in Legaspi's canvas tend to have corpulent bodies and smaller heads, an influence of the Chinese custom of equating size with prosperity and the size of the head with contentment. They come from all walks of life and celebrate happiness - an emotion that Legaspi increasingly pursues - in their own fashion. Legaspi images tell stories about life and its many fleeting moments. The garments of the characters carry the images that provide a richer insight into the personalities depicted in the work.

Victor Greenaway

Victor Greenaway is an internationally renowned Ceramic Artist represented widely in public and private collections both within Australia and overseas. He has earned a reputation for fine craftsmanship and innovative ceramic design, receiving many awards including a Winston Churchill Fellowship (1974) and an Arts Victoria award (1998), under the "International Export & Touring Program," to take an exhibition of work to Italy in 1999. Greenaway continues in the development of finely executed spiral forms in the transclucent porcelain of Limoges, as well as producing a range of complementary forms using the ancient Etruscan black-fired technique of bucchero.

In 2005, The Beagle Press, a fine art book publishing company in Sydney, printed a beautifully presented monograph celebrating 40 years of the artist's work.

David Giles

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Lau Wai Leng

Wai Leng started to paint market series since 1998. She noticed that the women folks are simple, colorful, hardworking and contribute much to their families and societies at large. She likes to capture their movement, the expression on their face, hands and body. The figures are exaggerated, especially their hands. It represents their unsophisticated approach to life. Their straw hats are a symbol of simple defense from the harsh sunlight, and also the symbol of their dedication of their works, as they wear them everyday.

Wong Shin

Inspired by the performing arts. Wong Shin brings to life the drama of music and dance with strong, yet fluid lines in each sculpture. Under the tutelage of world renowned sculptor Yuyu Yang in Taiwan, she has mastered the craft of transforming cold hard steel and bronze into vivid portrayals of human emotion. With every piece casting a lively, vibrant glow.

Poh Siew Wah

A versatile painter, Poh's early works were realistic watercolours and oils of Singapore scenes. In his present series, he presents endearing works of nature that reflects on the quietude of the scenes he paints.The works are painted impressionistically and in semi-cubist style in a poetic mood and atmosphere. Poh seeks for symmetry, harmony and balance in his works be it an abstract work or representational work. For him it is important that they reflect his deepest feelings.

Joy Godley

The techniques Joy employs to apply the various mediums in her paint effects although calculated, have a degree of unpredictability to it; helping to achieve a celestial elegance that draws the viewer into their tranquility and beauty. Her use of both gold and silver leaf gives her work a distinctive glow and depth. Her colours are transparent, allowing the background to shimmer in rich and vibrant tones.

Eddie Goh

Raul Isidro

Wong Ooi Shyan