Expressive Landscape

Miguel Santos

Philippines — Baguio

Miguel paints the mountains, bays and weather of the Philippines from memory, with sweeping gestural brushwork and saturated, emotional colour.

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Artist Statement

I do not paint what a place looks like. I paint what it felt like to stand there.

— Miguel Santos

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Background & inspiration

Miguel has painted in Baguio for more than thirty years and is regarded as one of the quiet masters of the Cordillera art community. He walks every morning and paints every afternoon, working from small sketchbook notes rather than photographs. His recent canvases move between the cool greens of the mountains and the deep blues of the coast where he grew up in Batangas.