Artist’s Back to Basic – July 2019

guitarist – with significant skills
in the performing arts. She was
a guitar playing member of the
first all female band in Cebu;
and spent two years performing
in the Philippines and Japan.
A new life in Australia opened this
artist’s eyes to more vital influences.
Here she became interested to
learn different artistic techniques.
Delving into numerous books and
other resources, she developed
her love for the works of renowned
artists such as Caravaggio (from
Italy) and Elya Repin (from Russia).
In 1989, Remia began to
accept serious commissions. This
was also the year in which she
decided to specialise in portrait
painting. She loves to capture
the feelings and emotions of her
subjects with paint on canvas.
In May 1997, she completed a
commissioned portrait of the Mayor

and Councillors of her native home

town – a work which was hung in the

Municipal Town Hall in Sindangan.

In August 1997, she joined ‘Arts

Alive’. This was promptly followed

by her winning first prize in the

‘Traditional’ section of the 1998

Arts Alive Trophy Exhibition.

Remia Montayre Homuk

continues to fine-tune her skills in

the visual arts while she dreams

of achieving her own unique style.

With discipline and humility, she

believes that success is possible. If

success can be measured in a rich

proliferation of masterful pictures,

she has already achieved it. n

Above: Tarasbulba

(Reproduction – major

changes done)

“She loves to capture the feelings and emotions

of her subjects with paint on canvas.”