Gallery of Philippine Contemporary Art

Edwin Wilwayco

Painting is discovery. Everytime you make a mark on canvas, all sorts of possibilities open up-and all sorts of problems to which you have to find solutions. When you take a brush to canvas, you never know exactly the result paint is going to make. The tension of always trying to push yourself over the edge, of testing the limits of your imagination, in the hope of creating impressions distinctly your own and quite beyond anything you ever expected when you started out. Therein lies the continual challenge and beauty of the act of painting for me. ~ Edwin C. Wilwayco

Born in Guimba, Nueva Ecija, Philippines on July 18, 1952

STUDIES:

• Continental Schools Design Studies, 1968
  Los Angeles, California, USA
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, 1972
  University of the Philippines, Diliman, Quezon City
• British Council Scholar for Painting, 1982
  West Surrey College of Art and Design, Farnham, England

Kulay-Diwa  is a venue for Philippines and Southeast Asian Contemporary Art. Inaugurated on February 7, 1987, Kulay-Diwa, is strategically located within a cluster of communities South of Manila.  It has five independent exhibition areas able to accommodate large-scale works and a garden ideal for programs, performances and sculpture installations.  The goals of the gallery are to discover and promote the works of young, talented but deserving Filipino Artists and to foster cultural interaction and exchanges with the local regions and other countries.

Kulay (Colour)

Diwa  (Spirit, Thought)

Edwin Wiwayco, "Untitled", Oil on Canvas

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