About the Artist:
Jose Trinidad was educated formally at the University of the Phillippines. However, travel being his professed education in art, Trinidad has also found his muse in the gardens and homes of North America. The results of this wide-ranging are oil paintings of entrancing beauty. Joyful colours, vibrant flowers and the uncanny play of sunlight and shadow - his palette creates a dreamlike world of tranquility and tenderness. A sensitive poet at heart, Trinidad handles his brush and palette with vigor and authority, yet with utmost tenderness in presenting children at play and at rest in floral and water ambiences. His garden scenes are vibrant with colour and light, yet controlled and balanced. Perhaps it is not surprising that the artists Trinidad most admires are Monet and Renoir. "It is wonderful," he says, "the way their paintings can take you into another dimension". He approaches his art with the seriousness of a disciplined craftsman, with painstaking care and detail. Each piece of art is created with much inspiration and feeling.