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Nature is at the forefront of Edwin Wilwayco’s works. “My works are inspired by my fondness for nature,” he said in a 2016 interview with Meagan Meehan, written on Wilwayco’s website. “Anything that calls my attention, whether an image I've seen in a magazine, music that triggers my imagination, scenes that stay in my mind … Floral designs lead to curvilinear forms found in landscapes. I see floral designs or patterns as part of the whole earth's landscape.”

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This 2010 work is a vivid homage to nature. The blue and the sea have been familiar companions for Wilwayco – nearly a decade before he had mounted his Blues exhibition, bringing out that gloomy hue and transforming it into a myriad of different ways. Here, he had taken that very same hue and pushed it even further. Utilizing softer hues as opposed to the deeper hues in his Blues exhibit, this piece is the sea on a summer afternoon, quiet and kind. He preferred bright colors, he said in the same interview, but this piece points out Wilwayco’s intuitive process.

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“When I paint I have no preconception of what I want to do,” he said. “I let the painting develop according to my inner feelings and moods … I don't even start with a color preference. The colors in my paintings are juxtaposed for various changing effects; they challenge or echo each other.”

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Indeed, by letting the painting move on its own, Wilwayco infuses his works with a distinct sense of emotion, an intuition that makes his works palpably different from each other and yet wholly and truly Wilwayco’s. (Hannah Valiente)

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