Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

Edwin Wilwayco has always felt the impulse to translate nature into art — regarding each painting as a voyage into the inexhaustible luxuriance of nature, irradiated by the artist’s own inner light. Wilwayco has always referenced the sacred and the divine in the primacy of his emotions. More than the investigation of space, or the activation of textures, more than the vibrancy of colors or the complexity of composition — the artist concerns himself with the resonances of abstraction as a spiritual language, conveying meanings that are profoundly affecting, if not life-changing.