ANGELES CITY -- A female artist has staged her fifth exhibit which features colorful artworks of flowers, koi and birds.
The exhibit of Christina “Tiinz” Taruc opened at the Museo ning Angeles on Monday.
Special guests include Angeles City First Lady Herminia Pamintuan; Museo ning Angeles President Marco Nepomuceno; City of San Fernando Vice Mayor Jimmy Lazatin; Mila dela Fuente; her father Dr. Romeo Taruc; and, Jesus Romualdez along with Tiinz's friends and relatives.
Tiinz, 53, is a daughter of former City Councilor Dr. Romeo Taruc and granddaughter of Hukbalahap leader Luis Taruc.
Tiinz started painting three years ago but her artistic inclinations were evident even when she graduated Tourism from the UP Diliman.
Her artistic leaning led her to jobs in the United States that exposed her to commercial art and graphic design.
She spent over two decades working for what are considered two of the biggest engineering and architectural design firms in the world: Hellmuth Obata & Kassabaum and AECOM.
These firms are responsible for their distinguished engineering and architectural marvels such as the King Khaled Airport in Saudi Arabia; the Charles de Gaulle Airport in France; Resorts World Sentosa; the London Olympic Park; the Hong Kong Science Park; and, the Apple, Inc. R&D Campus.
While in New York, she further honed her skills as a graphic artist and designer at the famous Parsons School of Design.
Described by one art patron as "Monet on steroids," Tiinz's uniqueness and individuality are stamped into every single work of art she produces that helped her carve a niche in the world of modern artists.
Taruc artworks bear hear signature style -- the indefinable essence of her soul which manifests in her quick, confident brush strokes; unerring color symphonies; and, surprising, quirky compositions.
The artist has recurrent themes that have been noticed by art enthusiasts and serious collectors.
Her gigantic flower paintings have a life of their own. One rose artwork contains ten different hues of red alone.
Tiinz said she mixes her uniquie colors herself. She also paints lilies and sunflowers.
Tiinz considers her Van Gogh-inspired landscapes with the spiral, rolling clouds depicting movement in the sky overlooking a rural panorama or an urban cityscape as her liveliest artworks.
Her nationalist spirit, an inherent family trait, weaves itself into her artworks where familiar landmarks such as Pinatubo Volcano, Mount Arayat, Mount Makiling, the Sierra Madre Mountain Range, and structures such as the San Fernando Cathedral and even the Salakot at the entrance of the Clark Freeport can be seen.
Tiinz said the influence of Chagall and Picasso surface in her portraits that reflect the many mysterious facets of a woman while her versions of the Madonna and Child revere the bond between a mother and her child.
She said that her crowded koi paintings brim with abundance and prosperity.
One ardent koi hobbyist, she said, waited 30 years to find the perfect koi painting and found a Tiinz Taruc original that was exactly what she wanted.
Taruc’s craft has evolved as she added bird paintings to her repertoire.
The simple yet graceful outlines of her bird figures are very similar to her koi paintings, plentiful in number yet not in massive clusters like the koi.
Taruc said these are also different whereas koi congregate and seemingly swim in perpetual motion, her birds sit serenely on respective tree branches.
Her works have also been noticed in the world arena. Within a year after she started painting, Tiinz was chosen among 300 contestants as the winner of a United Nations-sponsored competition to create six exhibit boards for the Global Chemi-Pharma Producers Directory (GCPPD).