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Wednesday, October 06, 2004
Cenacle art club
Art at a ripe age? It’s never too late, as Ritchie Landis Doner Quijano attests.
It’s never too late to learn art, even for the busy matrons of society.
The painter Grandma Moses had long proven that it’s fine not to start early in life. Recently, I saw the launch of what will hopefully become the Cenacle Art Club or, by any other name, will give their members identity as artists. This was at the Cenacle Sisters Center of Spirituality in Forest Hills Subd.,
Banawa. And the women who frequent the place for art classes are under the tutelage of the respected senior painter Renato “Boy” Sagario.
The class is composed of a handful of women in their prime: mothers and grandmothers who are driven to find the spirituality in creation through art.
The exhibit of students’ works was, in part, in anticipation of the feast day of St. Therese Couderc, the foundress of the Cenacle Sisters. Of the ten students, two are Cenacle nuns. All showed different styles and preferences in subjects and mediums. Sisters Sonia Arao and Emma Garcia, though, were both particularly good in rendering fine strokes using pen and ink media. Another who excelled in the same medium is Lilian Du.
One was clearly a lover of the outdoors and nature. Julie Go’s ornithology-flavored paintings of swans and a work called “Tweety” all shows a keen interest in specimen painting of natural fauna.
The largest painting on exhibit was done by Saturnina Go, a work in pastel, apt for her chosen subject, floral arrangements. But among the variety of paintings, those magical seascapes by Concepcion Narvios linger in my mind.
Very few paint nocturnal scenes because of limitations in color, but Teresita Tan has proven to be a great nightscape painter. Ester Tolentino had a number of works and shows her adeptness in pastels, pen and ink and oil painting. Teresita’s son Carlo Giovanni is already quite advanced in handling oil as a medium. He showed quiet paintings of the picturesque lighthouses of Lilo-an.
Charcoal was a medium of choice for Agustina Unchuan whose intimate portraits of family members were given the softest strokes, akin to a mother’s touch. Their instructor, whom they call by his nickname “Boy”, decades ago studied fine arts in the University of Sto. Tomas. Boy’s latest works are paintings with textured surfaces employing the techniques of papier maché.
These are mostly monochromatic in appearance and are pastoral in setting, broken only when he occasionally tackles the themes of festivities, like the Sinulog. So Boy, just keep the great work going, man!
(October 6, 2004 issue)
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