Rose Gisbert
At age 6, Rose started drawing, inspired by Disney cartoons. Fuelled by a hyper-active imagination, Rose would indulge in hours of drawing and doodling on a sketchbook made up of recycled sheets of paper, working on figures, adapted from movies like Fantasia and Beauty and The Beast. In high school, art classes would pose both a challenge and a source of satisfaction for Rose, as her desk would be piled high with requests from classmates for her to accomplish their projects.
Belonging to a brood of 13 kids, it was only in college at UST that she finally had a taste of real art education when she took up Fine Arts, majoring in advertising. Before graduation, her father gifted her with a painting workshop under a prestigious painter.
She did not pursue advertising as a career, working instead as an illustrator for a government agency, and later on as a free-lance artist doing design jobs ranging from books to corporate brochures.
Rose has always been fascinated by Picasso’s work, and loves the colours and textures of Van Gogh. She describes her style as abstract impressionism, opting not to do realism – she opines that we see real things everyday, so why not paint stuff we don’t commonly see? From cartoon characters, Rose’s favourite subjects have evolved to females with attitudes.
Her brightly coloured canvasses are dominated by huge eyes...eyes leaping out of their facial boundaries...eyes that tell what Rose’s subjects are...what they do, what they feel, what they desire. And these eyes do tend to pull the viewer to explore the range of emotions these women possess.
Rose’s primary medium is acrylic on canvas, though she dabbles in other media such as pen and ink, and soft/oil pastels.
Rose taught at the ISM in Taguig, teaching art to Grade school kids. In spite of her hectic teaching schedule, Rose manages to give tutorials to young kids, and ‘weekend therapy’ lessons to close friends in her workshop. She also does monthly art outreach visits to a group of prisoners at the maximum security section of Bilibid prison, teaching and encouraging them to come up with inspired art pieces. She also gives art lessons to residents of a facility for the elderly. Rose has made it her mission to share what she knows and learns.
Rose is a devoted wife and mother, with three grown-up kids. The artistic streak runs in the family -- her two daughters are into painting, bead works and homemade skin care, while her son is into AutoCAD engine designing.
By: Chiqui Lizada
Belonging to a brood of 13 kids, it was only in college at UST that she finally had a taste of real art education when she took up Fine Arts, majoring in advertising. Before graduation, her father gifted her with a painting workshop under a prestigious painter.
She did not pursue advertising as a career, working instead as an illustrator for a government agency, and later on as a free-lance artist doing design jobs ranging from books to corporate brochures.
Rose has always been fascinated by Picasso’s work, and loves the colours and textures of Van Gogh. She describes her style as abstract impressionism, opting not to do realism – she opines that we see real things everyday, so why not paint stuff we don’t commonly see? From cartoon characters, Rose’s favourite subjects have evolved to females with attitudes.
Her brightly coloured canvasses are dominated by huge eyes...eyes leaping out of their facial boundaries...eyes that tell what Rose’s subjects are...what they do, what they feel, what they desire. And these eyes do tend to pull the viewer to explore the range of emotions these women possess.
Rose’s primary medium is acrylic on canvas, though she dabbles in other media such as pen and ink, and soft/oil pastels.
Rose taught at the ISM in Taguig, teaching art to Grade school kids. In spite of her hectic teaching schedule, Rose manages to give tutorials to young kids, and ‘weekend therapy’ lessons to close friends in her workshop. She also does monthly art outreach visits to a group of prisoners at the maximum security section of Bilibid prison, teaching and encouraging them to come up with inspired art pieces. She also gives art lessons to residents of a facility for the elderly. Rose has made it her mission to share what she knows and learns.
Rose is a devoted wife and mother, with three grown-up kids. The artistic streak runs in the family -- her two daughters are into painting, bead works and homemade skin care, while her son is into AutoCAD engine designing.
By: Chiqui Lizada