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WHAT MAKES A THING OF BEAUTY A JOY FOREVER?Some dozen odd years ago I was attending some Asian artists’ conference in Singapore, and I remember asking someone what made something (art) liked by everybody. By ‘everybody’ I meant everyone, everywhere in every time (age, era, century). ‘Like Shakespeare,’ I remember saying... Read More
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4 INSPIRATIONAL THINGIES TO HELP YOU KEEP GOING WITH YOUR ARTHow do you keep going when (as half of that early 90s World) put it, you’re out of gas and you need a jacket? And the tyres are flat and the paint’s peeling ~you get the idea.
Obviously I haven’t been brimming with sunshine... Read More |
19 RELATIONSHIPS EXPRESSED IN ARTSeona is a German artist I met in art class who specialises in hyper-realistic oil portraits and whom I somehow managed to stay in touch with after we both *got out of school*.
Recently I discovered she’s begun to explore relationships... Read More |
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Jill is an artist and writer. Her work as an illustrator has appeared in children’s books, magazines, greeting cards and on a Philippine postage stamp. As a writer, she has written copy for leading local and multinational ad agencies, broadcasting companies and publications. She worked in radio as a writer and newscaster for over 10 years and she now lives, paints, and works in Quezon City. Born in Manila in 1975, Jill earned a Communication Arts degree in Advertising from the University of Asia and the Pacific, and a Fine Arts degree in Painting from the University of the Philippines. Her work has appeared in several group exhibitions as well as 17 solo exhibitions at several Manila galleries as well as the Cultural Center of the Philippines and the Ayala Museum.
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