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Thank you for visiting Nature moods Art Gallery. In this site, you will see the works of Godofredo Mercado Reyes and his son, Will B. Reyes. Both are full-time professional artists from the Philippines.
WILL B. REYES
Will B. Reyes attended the University of the Philippines, College of Fine Arts where he obtained a B.F.A. degree. He paints a wide array of subject matter but landscape is the closest to his heart. He has a passion for plein air painting, an artistic practice wherein one works directly from nature. Will believes that by working outdoors, one can capture the essence, color, mood and excitement of the landscape more subtly. His native province of Bulacan with its countryside scenes serves as a rich source of inspiration. Fidelity to nature is Will's guiding principle in painting.
Will B. Reyes had his his first solo show at the Vargas Museum of the University of the Philipines in 1990 and has participated in numerous group shows including the juried show "Pastels U.S.A." 13th Annual International Open Exhibition held in Roseville, California in 1999. He was once a resident painter in Senator Edgardo Angara's farm in Batangas, Philippines together with a friend and fellow artist Nilo Badajos.
Will takes inspiration from his father, painter Godofredo Mercado Reyes as well as the 19th Century American landscape painters such as George Inness, Jasper F. Cropsey, John F. Kensett, Albert Bierstadt, William Stanley Haseltine, Thomas Moran and the English painter John Constable.
GODOFREDO MERCADO REYES
Godofredo Mercado Reyes is a self-taught artist who as a child always had a passion for the art copying comic characters and molding human faces out of mud clay. He initially worked in advertising making billboards and designing related materials. Within years of transition, he has become a full-time professional artists who enjoys working on commissioned portraits, figures and situational realistic paintings. He has received numerous awards and recognition including the one for his painting entitled "A Little Wooden Song For Two Little Friends" with which he became a finalist in the Art Association of the Philippines Annual Art Competition in 1983. His work entitled "Landmark Cases in the American Period" became the foundation and won one of the grand prizes awarded by the Supreme Court and National Centennial Commission for the Arts in 1996. His work is being collected in the Philippines by artlovers and patrons who through the years have graciously supplied him with inspirations. His vision is to broaden his artistic reach to enable him to also share his work to more culturally diversified populations. |
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