Eve's Fanatsy

Title: Pantasya ni Eba (Oil on Canvass - painted October 2005)

Even before the day came when I painted this work of art, the idea of being a woman filled with fantasies and dreams was born on 1978. But only in 2005, when the ideas were uttered on paper and on canvass. The interpretation of the woman I want to be was painted on this absurd horizontal canvass and written on a three pages essay that were both submitted to Philip Morris contest more than three years ago. I was looking back at the journey I had and I always have this idea of how I want to profile myself after all these years of hard work and never-ending dreams.

Joan Manalang born in Manila –Philippines on 1978. Develops a work influenced by different powerful women and global female cultures. With a smooth way of painting, she develops a different and delusive topics linked with the life experience of the urban women translated in their own routine with urban interventions. Started her job in 2000. The journey of doing uncountable brochures, flyers, posters, banners, hundreds of print ads, and remarkable TV commercials makes her think that the road to Cannes Lions is narrow but not impossible to travel. Nowadays she has develop expositions, illustrations, paintings & graffiti. She also preaches about food with the inspiration she gets from whom she considered a food guru – Jamie Oliver. Never a day that she stop concocting gastronomical dishes that will captivate the taste buds of every food enthusiasts. She also classifies her self as female poetic visual artist with taste and class. She is also searching for the valorization of the women as a singular productive and creative human being in a society.

Anyway this might be a good intro for wiki. Sigh. But who knows? :-)

hugs,
joanie xxx