Paulina Constancia
is a multidisciplinary naïf artist from Cebu, Philippines, based in Vancouver BC, Canada. Her style is expressive and colourful and often invoke personal emotional experiences as reflected in both her visual and literary works.
Paulina primarily paints on canvas, sometimes incorporating stitching, but also works with textiles and found materials, gracing all with the vibrant colours of her childhood growing up in the tropics and her serendipitous encounters traveling abroad. Her works often incorporate a smiling sun or feature curious humans looking out at you to tell the story, usually with animal companions. Life metaphors and social commentaries lie beneath her whimsical treatment of everyday themes.
Paulina has exhibited her art in the Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Japan, Greece, Poland, Slovenia, The Netherlands, Mexico & in various cities in the U.S.A. and Canada.
Her art is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Naïve Art (MoNA) in the Philippines, Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Canada and the Galerija likovnih samorastnikov Trebnje (Gallery of Naive Artists Trebnje ) in Slovenia.
Oh, watermelon!
Go when red stop when green.
Sweet peace flows in you!
— P.Constancia, 2019