Collection: Chito Ignacio

Chito Ignacio, born in Manila, 1958.

A Fine Arts Advertising graduate of the University of Santo Tomas 1981.

First honorable mention in Creative Design Sculpture, UIST Annual Art Competition 1977.

Second Prize Composition Painting, UST Annual Art Competition - Year 1980

Flowers are abundant in Philippine art and are constantly in bloom. Through flowers wilt and dry after a few days dispensing their brilliant and vivid colors, in art they remain imperishable. A professional photographer, Chito Ignacio is an expert in close-up photography. This skill is what he transposed in his own flower paintings: looming large on the canvas, so large they assume an almost abstract quality.

Shimmering on his canvases are the subtle shades of red: rose pink, how pink, magenta, fuchsia, ruby red, alizarin crimson, and all the incarnadine tints and tones that render his flowers all ablaze.