RECENT WORKS BY YVEESE BELEN
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Painter Yveese Belen resurfaces with works created in London where she is currently based.  Once a grand prize winner of Art Petron, Belen was also given the Benavidez citation by the University of Sto. Tomas for excellence in the field of visual art. The new collection still bears her stamp of dark-skinned subjects with narrow arms, legs, and faceless oblong heads that dot her canvases as counterpoints to her bright backdrops which are, in turn, complemented by the characters’ boxy, colorful garb.  This contrast of thin extremities and wide, loose clothing seems to be echoed by the notable addition of trees from whose wide trunks surprisingly sprout slim branches with delicate pointed leaves.


Another of Yveese’s penchants is present in the artworks: that of depicting buildings, ladders and various receptacles by scratching on the already painted canvas so that the resulting structure appears to be made of white lines. Her fondness of rendition in spare, almost geometric fashion is also seen in objects such as bicycles, scooters, prams and wheelbarrows.  These elements clue viewers in that the scenes, whether in rich greens of fruit-picking season or with pumpkins and falling autumn leaves, are part park-in-London or British suburb or English countryside but still interspersed with shapes and colors Yveese began with back home in the Philippines.

Yveese Belen’s recent works are currently on view at 1/of Gallery in Serendra, Bonifacio Global City.  Call 901-3152 or email 1ofgallery@gmail for details.

A SUNNY DAY

NOVEMBER AFTERNOON

FRUIT PICKING

SARIMANOK