Guy Custodio paints themes that typify the country’s rich religious experience and ecclesiastical heritage. Jea Mina paints themes that reflect artworks of the millennial and Gen Z generations.
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Custodio is a fixture in the local art scene. Besides painting, which he does with untold passion, he pursues art restoration by bringing back to life the damaged artworks. Custodio’s approach in every restoration work is to preserve its soul. He hardly tinkers with its integrity. He keeps the original artists’ intent.
“This young generation sees self-expression as the priority in creating artworks, rules and everything else is secondary. What matters is that they like their own work,” she said. For Guy Custodio, a painter who has done art conservation and preservation for the last 30 years, the success of restored art is measured by keeping its original spirit and form.
In 1977, he went to Spain and stayed there for three decades. Although a painter by discipline, Custodio developed the skills on art conservation and preservation on religious arts. He speaks fluent Castilian and Catalan languages. It did not take long for Custodio to go into art restoration works. It was on October 13, 2013, when a devastating, creating enormous damage to many structures, including churches like the fabled Sta. Monica Church in Albuquerque, Bohol. Cracks, detachment of facing stones, and collapsed parts were the results, prompting the National Museum to step into their recovery works.
The common denominator of her works is the ocean. Her works feature gigantic sea creatures in colorful hues, making normal-sized people look minuscule alongside them. But she does it for a reason. Mina was born and raised in Manila 23 summers ago. Parents Fyodor Fhilip and April Mina encouraged her to paint at an early age when they saw her fondness for lines, colors, and shapes. She did not attend any school for arts nor had formal lessons. She pursued it first as a hobby that later branched into passion.Mina completed her accountancy course at the city-owned Pamantasan ng Lungsod ng Maynila. Certain civil issues, although not her fault, prevented her from taking her CPA exams in 2023.
“Everything I know, I learned from discreetly reading on Reddit forums and watching YouTube videos – from what paint to use down to what varnish is affordable but reliable. It has been a series of trials and errors that I really didn’t mind making, because honestly, me failing never crossed my mind,” Mina added.
“The price of that work was just enough to cover the cost of the materials used and the KFC lunch I had before riding the bus to personally deliver the work to Laguna, but the joy I felt was enormous. It was money I earned for myself, it was a weirdly liberating feeling,” Mina recalled.
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