If you’re a big fan of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” like I am, then you would be familiar with one of their famous lines: “Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness…” Eloisa B. Sanson is far from being an eradicator of literal demons and dark forces of our world, but she sure can “slay” some amazing work in the art studio!
Contrary to Buffy, wherein her strength and skills were magically endowed to her, Eloisa had to make sure she had enough caliber to prove to her parents that she was worthy to go into art school. “What triggered my passion in art was the science behind Disney animated films. I dug deep into documentaries and studied the artists that built these masterpieces that fascinated me,” shared the young artist. Although her art is mostly contemporary, Eloisa has been exploring different styles; from Durer’s Sketches to Leonid Afrimov’s palette knife techniques, and is most comfortable with techniques applied in impressionism that are done in impasto. “I’m mostly into figure art, captivating living and breathing beings of this world and the world unknown. Most of all, I am fascinated with human nature, for humans make the craziest things out of their environment: religion, politics, emotions, science, innovation, and imagination—things that make them evolve into the most powerful beings on this planet. My art speaks about how human nature resonates through this universe’s existence and is imaginative of how they can gamble with the extraterrestrial world that awaits them,” Eloisa ardently shares.
The young Davao artist has been applying different art movements and mediums, but her naturally developed strong and edgy strokes remain in most of her opuses. Her award-winning sculptural pieces—“Regeneration” and “Blissful Memories of A Father”, focus on the consistent human nature harmonizing with change and the belief that an individual’s biggest highlight is embracing the end of time and knowing that he/she has done great things.
“My primary goal as an artist is travelling in my own world, since all my life I’ve only travelled worlds wrought in imagination. I also dream to be a “Swiss-knife” in visual arts—being able to make masterpieces of art’s different forms from painting, to sculpting, and to animating,” Eloisa states. Only at twenty years old, she has exhibited and won significant recognitions and awards for her work; from being DOLE’s artist of the year, most promising student from Philippine Women’s College ASADE, and winning third place in Shell’s national competitions, both in 2015 and 2016. And as the masses have noticed, all over the world, there have been an influx of amazing craftspeople discovered thanks to the magic of social media; in Eloisa’s generation, they have more freedom and access to dabble in different mediums and techniques that give them more learning experiences and vaster skills of application; but like the saying goes: “all are called but few are chosen”—and Eloisa B. Sanson, with her ever growing potential is one of the chosen few that we can expect great artistic evolutions from. Further transcending the concepts of art and humanity, generating and regenerating ideas and techniques that will revolutionize the future-contemporary art scene.
