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Recently we featured Batanes’ dynamic art as part of a Sunday travel piece for this paper. We’d like to follow up on that article and focus some more on the remarkable art being produced in ...
Batanes landscapes by local artists hang side by side with watercolors of Brittany. On a lower part of Tukon, by the road to Basco, is another project that manifests the passion for art.
“In 2005-2006, Margarita Garcia (now Margarita Garcia Asperas) conducted an art workshop here in Batanes where I met most of the artists,” said Abelador. Garcia was then a US Fulbright ...
The emerald rolling hills and windswept meadows of the northernmost province of the Philippines are vividly depicted in her newly rediscovered 1985 painting “Sapuno.” ‘Sapuno’ (Batanes ...
Her art integrated painting ... a conclusion the retrospective encourages viewers to make. Born in 1946 in Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines, to a large political family ...
One massive piece, “100 Years of Freedom: From Batanes to Jolo” (1998), she built by painting and collaging fabric from throughout the Philippines, including, she wrote, “pañuelos ...