BY CHRYSEE G. SAMILLANO
Negrense visual artist Maymay Camarines is holding an ongoing solo art exhibit at the Artfull Gallery at 18th-Lacson streets, Bacolod City which opened on November 6 and will run until December 20.
Featured in the show titled “Strokes of Bounty”, Camarines’ works captures the Negrosanon’s most important season— the harvest, in his recent works through colors and graceful, playful strokes.
Each piece expresses a sense of gratefulness and though they demonstrate the hardships of labor, they also invite us to celebrate the happiness of bounty.
It also shows that amidst the storm of the pandemic we are still showered by abundance of blessings.
Stroke of bounty is a celebration of love and hope as reflected in Camarines’ unabashed and unapologetic splash of colors and graceful strokes.
Camarines, a self-taught artist with expertise in vivid impressionism style, was first exposed to art by his father, also a freelance artist.
He later worked in the field of advertising as a lettering artist, muralist, fabricator and signage and billboard installer.
In 2012, he decided to pursue his love of painting while working in an advertising company. He also joined various local and national painting competitions and won as champion in the professional painting category organized by Victorias Milling Corporation in 2014.
Four of his commissioned oil paintings have become official post cards of the University of College Cork in Ireland. He was also second place winner of the 2021 National Pastel Competition of the Philippine Pastel Artists.
Camarines is a member of the Art Association of Bacolod- Negros.*