Beatriz Robles
Art is a natural expression for Beatriz Robles, encompassing writing, painting, experimental photography, and playing the clarinet. Bea effortlessly produces metaphors, akin to whistling classical tunes, and explores colors and shapes on canvas or paper. With a diverse cultural background, she grew up in New Jersey, the “garden state,” and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing from Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines.
Bea is an accomplished author with her first book, “Life through Letters: A Writer’s Journey from Sunset to Sunrise,” offering inspirational non-fiction through letters and essays. Her second book, “A Sensual World: What do you see?” published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. Philippines, is an artistic collection of vignettes. The third book, “Artwords,” is a literary art book featuring calligrams, photography, and redactive poetry, published by Authors Press, USA. As a freelance writer contributing to various magazines, she enjoys traveling and pursuing her interests in painting and music.
Beatriz has hosted 12 solo art exhibitions and 2 solo clarinet concerts in the Philippines, with performances in group shows across Europe and Asia. Her unique approach, known as Artwords, combines art and literature, transforming words into visual images. Derived from her book “A Sensual World,” Artwords involves painting with words, embodying the concept of Assertionism: Therapeutic Art Form. Following her father’s assertion, Beatriz believes that powerful art asserts, transforms, and transcends.
Her exhibitions, such as “Cymballic Explosion: When Music and Art Collide” (Heritage Gallery 2006), “Waltz of the Flowers” (Ayala Museum 2013), and “Face the Art” (Yuchengco Museum 2014), visually intertwine her passions. Additionally, she has performed in solo clarinet concerts, including “Ars Longa, Vita Brevis: GSIS Museum Concert Series” (April 30, 2010) and “UNWIND: Experiencing Music in a Whole Different Way” at CCP Little Theater (October 14, 2005).
Her artwork has been aptly described as possessing a “disarming quality, by turns soothing, hypnotic, mesmerizing,” according to Gino Dormiendo of The Philippine Daily Inquirer.
