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RONA BUENASEDA-CHUA is a versatile artist who knows how to find beauty in regular, everyday subjects. She loves to innovate and has worked with many mediums. She paints with watercolor, acrylic and oils. She draws with chalk pastel, oil pastel and colored pencils. She is making a name for herself throughout the Philippines, with the use of her own style, manipulating traditional and modern techniques to express her own brand of creativity. Her drawing ability showed at an early age. An Assumption Convent alumna from elementary to high school, her talent broadened and flourished when she went on to study Fine Arts, major in Art Education, at the College of the Holy Spirit. Rona has conducted various workshops and her paintings have been featured in several group exhibitions through out the whole country including those of the Tuesday Group of the Filipino Artists. She also teaches art at her own studio (Rona’s Art Studio) located in Pasay Rd., Makati and San Juan and is open to visits by appointment. Her work, drawings and paintings, represent a huge volume of work. She is best known for her unique subjects— everyday objects, like flowers and comestibles. Among her inspirations are Rembrandt van Rijin, revered genius of Western art, Paul Cezanne, a French Post-Impressionist Painter of the 19th century and graphic artist Erte. She also acknowledges as great influence her teacher in Chinese painting, Hau Chiok, whose work has inspired the superb orientalism in her work.
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