The artist from Cebu is a total creative spirit in her creative primeproficient in different art mediums but able to retain the consistency of her artwork’s distinct style, form and content. Her creative journey started very early, at age 17 in Cebu, when she opened a fashion boutique where she designed her own line of clothes and shoes while finishing school. In 1997, she also studied at Bellas Artes, Instituto Allende and Clay Olé in San Miquel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. She studied molding clay, wove stories while firing tiles, painted quilts, experimented with assemblage using construction materials and found objects, did sculptures of welded metals, and wrote poetry. To subscribe to the Philippine Daily Inquirer newspaper in the Philippines, call +63 2 896-6000 for Metro Manila and Metro Cebu or email your subscription request here .

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