Contemporary Figurative

Clara Villanueva

Philippines — Cebu

Clara paints the human figure as gesture and memory — loose, tender compositions in earth tones and watercolour that hover between portrait and abstraction.

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Artist Statement

A figure is never just a body. It is a gesture someone made once, and that I am trying to remember.

— Clara Villanueva

In the Studio

Background & inspiration

Clara studied fine arts in Cebu and printmaking in Kyoto. She works across oil, ink and watercolour, often beginning a painting from a single remembered gesture — a hand on a shoulder, a turned head. Her palette of umber, sienna and bone white gives her figures a timeless, quiet presence that collectors describe as deeply intimate.