Isab Angeles’s works for “Return to Nature” express a tradition of respect for the healing power of nature. The artist investigates humanity’s valuable and fundamental relationship to the natural world as detailed in the exquisite detailing and delicate layering of her paintings.
Embracing the essence of organic abstraction, Angeles’s artistic practice reflects her love of nature and its enigma. Working intuitively, the artist explores the idea of perception versus reality within the figurations, gestural line works, and organic forms found in her paintings. Isab Angeles’artis generated by her deeply felt connection to exactly those fundamental life forces — birth, growth, and evolution. For her, nature connects humans to intrinsic truth; offering solace to one’s interior life. She believes nature exists beyond religion, politics, and physicality.
The organic qualities “Return to Nature” stem from Angeles’ love and respect for nature and its mysterious repetition of line and form. Working from visual memory, the figurations appear and disappear within the shapes and gestural movements. Each free-flowing exploration is only complete when the abstract touches the familiar; the point when something definite has been created, but its mystery is still intact. Isab Angeles aims her works to connect on an emotional level, for its viewer to relate to something fundamentally human.
Barbara Ruth Chanco Angeles (b. 1969) is a self-taught visual artist from the Philippines. After years of becoming an art consultant, Angeles decided to create and share her own artworks to an audience. The medium she initially used was pastel, creating lines using vibrant and metallic colors applied by a very fine paint brush.
Barbara “Isab” Angeles believes that it is never too late to find purpose and drive. She narrates that it is through God’s unwavering love and grace that she gained the courage to pursue being an artist as a vocation. Her paintings are at the intersection of abstraction, and Isab Angeles is interested in creating space and distance that feels familiar yet metaphysical. Her imagery includes visual plains and geometric shapes that intersect and overlap, creating a sense of depth and perspective.
“Return to Nature” by Isab Angeleswill be on view simultaneously at Galerie Raphael Shangri-la and Galerie Raphael Serendra from September 23 to October 1, 2021. Galerie Raphael Shangri-la is located at Level 4, Main Wing Shangri-La Plaza Mall, EDSA cor. Shaw Blvd. Mandaluyong City and Galerie Raphael Serendra is at the Second Level, The Piazza Serendra Mall, Bonifacio Global City, Taguig.
