Provenance: Provenance: Private Collection, Manila

ABOUT THE WORK

The works of H.R. Ocampo are heavily inspired by the environmental and biological forms that govern our everyday life. His works express the inherent fundamental life processes amidst a much grander cosmic setting. Thus, collectors, historians, and artists describe his works as biomorphic, an important and fruitful element that Ocampo has wholeheartedly accepted in his visual language. Using movement and bold colors, Ocampo utilized fantasy as the basis for his works. His art is described as abstract compositions of biological forms that seemed to oscillate, quiver, and multiply, much like brief yet alluring flames.