R.M. De Leon has been a prolific artist and painter for the longest time. Unfettered figures within lined vistas consummated through an intricately clear perspective yield products of R.M de Leon’s paintings. These vista works are playfully rendered unto the canvas with broad strokes and captivating colors; like a sixties comic strip fused with a Rorschach Ink Blot Test. The figures within and interpreted solely by the viewer; whatever one sees within the picture is entirely up to the mind. As one looks into each of the works, one can see that the lines which make up his terrain give the works a multidimensional quality; allowing the viewer to perceive the boulders and the various trees in a constantly shifting fore, middle, and background.

It is in the almost childish egoless representations of De Leon that the viewer can see gullies rivers, and ridges in the works. Maybe they are actually there and maybe not. R.M. De Leon remains an artist with an immaculate style; having resisted the various trendy influences that have often times been snapped up by other artists.

Jonathan Olazo is actively creating art that never fails to intrigue the viewers. His works questions the root of the matter of art; he post challenges and culls answers to his question, thus arriving on his purpose; art is redefined. In one show he filled the entire basement of a museum with installation work made of found objects, light boxes etc. consequently, sediments of the mind accumulated through the years. It reveals layers of history of the artist’s questioning the context of his surroundings. Recently he experiments on what he calls as unorthodox appearance of painting on canvas that appears questioning how  tangible the support is with the way he plays with the rhythm of the strokes. He coined it “experimental media”. To posit what the current situation of art is now—its relevance and use, a meter for our own mortality and apparent art’s own redemption.

Raul Rodriguez is a graduate of Bachelor of Fine Arts, major in Painting in 1984  at University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City and took his Master of Christian Studies at the Alliance Bibilical Seminary from 1995-2002. Raul G. Rodriguez, a visual artist of punk slant in the 80’s, is also an animator, minister and a long-time confrere of RM from their UP days. He “explore(s) the tributaries” initiated by his wide variety of influences that ranges from Caravaggio to Matisse to Rothko to Chabet, pursuing the visual surprises when juxtaposing such images that would hopefully lead to new ways of seeing. Shedding light on his method, he mused that he “treats the theme or the idea at hand as a poetic interplay between chosen colors, recognizable elements, the ambiguity inherent in the properties of paint/painting in itself, the expected desired results and the improvisational rapport I experience in the art process.” Furthermore, he noted that  “Style can either be your aesthetic prison or a stepping stone to knowing more of the possibilities of the visual language.” Worked for 9 years as assistant animator & animator in Burbank Animations Studios, Salcedo Village, Makati (1985-1988), Fil-Cartoons Inc. Pioneer St., Mandaluyong (1989-1994) and TOEI Animation in West Avenue, QC (1994). Currently working as the Head Minister of Harvesters Christian Fellowship Ministries in New Manila area, Quezon City.

Trek Valdizno wields the brush to define the two-dimensional aspects of his works: through his creation of forms using industrial-based (e.g. acrylic and enamel) paints. He utilizes non-conventional painting materials and surfaces- such as leatherette, lacquer-drenched foam, double-sided glass framing, and overlapping installations of paintings. Trek Valdizno is a Painting graduate of the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UPCFA) and a 1994 Juror's Choice Awardee at the Philip Morris Art Awards. Valdizno cultivates a strong conceptual element in his abstractions and installations.