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Loonanons in the Visual Arts
(Incomplete record.  Everyone is encouraged to submit names of those who are worthy of mention in this list.)
 

Joel Aplasin - enlightened inmate painting from the national penitentiary.

Lucas Corciega - Canada-based visual artist (digital and creative photography).

Lemuel M. Cornito - resident artist, Meeril Arts; graphic Artist and T-shirt designer; oil painter. Cornito is an artist who experiments in regard to his subjects, medium and canvas.  He paints on textile, driftwood, old wood slabs, and chests or "kaban", Recently he experimented on painting mature yet unfilled coconuts locally called "bu**** nga lubi".  The result was a hit among art enthusiasts.

Alanito Luminarias Gomez + - handicraft designer and, until his death, was Bohol's most prolific collage artist. 

Ramon Pesidas Lapeña Jr. - painter; Fine Arts graduate of the University of the Philippines.

Lloyd Peter M. Lopez, MD - visual artist; municipal mayor of Loon; A self-educated artist, Mayor Lloyd once tried his hands on "Baza", a t-shirt business he put up with his friends.  He also paints using charcoal as medium and the human face as subject. When the Municipality of Loon joined, and won the grand prize, during the 2000 Bohol Sandugo street dancing and dance drama showdown, he designed the contingent's centerpiece, a representation of Tubig-Loon, with real water cascading from a mountain prop.  Recently he designed the logo of Loon's First Creative Industry Festival.

Reynald Romea Luminarias - US-based architect, photographer and digital artist.

Carlito “Carling” P. Masalta - oil painter; owner of Isla Vista, the only visual arts shop on Cabilao Island; erstwhile student of Fine Arts at the University of the Philippines College Cebu. His clients are mostly tourists coming to Cabilao to bask in its quiet environment or explore the magnificent underwater panorama around the emerald island. A member of the Art Association of the Philippines, Carling has joined group exhibits, mostly in Cebu and Bohol.  His works, mostly in the realism and impressionism genres, have been exhibited three times at Shangri-La in Mactan.

Norman Mataflorida - licensed architect, graphic artist and well-known T-shirt designer and printer. His clients include not only Loonanons but also those from outside the town. Having been trained to draw, he occasionally produces sketches and illustrations. He worked in the Middle East where he designed concepts for interiors of buildings and offices.

Farley Meredores - Franciscan friar whose God-given talent in the visual arts produced quite a number of paintings and sculptures, mostly images of Jesus, Mary and some saints.  Growing up as a child in Moto Sur, he already showed signs of becoming an artist and craftsman as he frequented the shop of his neighbor, Dodong Simbajon, to observe how the latter fashioned human and other figures of reinforced concrete. Even at a young age, he was already tinkering with the sculptor's tools and was able to produce miniature statues and figures.  Farley designed and executed the main altar of the Mary Coredemtrx Shrine in Talamban, Cebu City.  When he was based in Bicol, particularly in Naga, Farley carved a huge "Pieta" figure that greets churchgoers of one of the city's Catholic churches.  Farley also dabbles in painting. A painting of his that shows baby Jesus kissing Mary, His mother, is on display at the Catholic Library in Naga City.  (Search for his works in the internet and be amazed.)
 











11.   Reigh P. Monreal - publications management specialist; winner, Municipality of Loon Official Seal Designing Competition.

12.   Rolando Paloso – painter and sculptor; one of his masterpieces is the huge statue of Francisco Dagohoy, Boholano hero, that welcomes all visitors to the provincial PNP headquarters.

13.   Virgilio Q. Pomida - multimedia painter; married to a Loonanon; awarded as one of the top watercolor artists of the Philippines; winner of the Doña Modesta Singson Gaisano On-the-Spot Painting Contest for which he was invited to exhibit in the US.

14.   Rene Eune "Coycoy" P. Ponte - painter, graphic artist and T-shirt designer. Artdom, his Loon-based printing shop, became a training ground for young artists and attracted quite a number of clients. He currently works as a graphic artist in Tagbilaran.

15.   Redentor O. Razalo - architect and painter

16.   Mario L. Relampagos - photographer; undersecretary of the Department of Budget and Management. Despite his very tight schedule, Relampagos still finds time for artistic pursuits, particularly art photography, which has also become a profitable business for this recipient of the PaghiuSadya 2005 Outstanding Loonanon Award. 

17.   Zosimo ‘Iyo Zosing’ P. Relampagos - Loon's most respected painter and sculptor.  He designed and executed Bohol’s most beautiful monument dedicated to Christ the King (Cristo Rey) which is found beside the Church of Our Lady of Light. His other works include the statue of Our Lady of Light on the façade of the Kasilak church; a replica of the grotto in Lourdes complete with the statues of the Virgin Mary and St. Bernadette, also found beside the Kasilak church; the "hugosan", a four-column platform that serves as main gate of the fortress-like church and venue of the annual Easter Sunday rites; and the Stations of the Cross inside the church of Dauis, his wife's hometown. He once had a shop in Tagbilaran called Mary’s Art, named after the Blessed Virgin and Mary Loquellano, his spouse.  The shop specialized in religious images carved on wood or painted on canvas. The prolific artist was best at painting “still life” and sculpting the Last Supper many of which now adorn houses throughout Bohol.  Iyo Zosing's children and grandchildren are also into art.  One of his daughters, Luz R. Rodriguez, an architect, is the mother of Sheila R. Ira, Sharon R. Lee and Sherlene, who all know how to paint.  Another daughter, Sonia R. Aliño, also has a painter for a daughter in the person of Esperanza A. Estomata. Iyo Zosing's youngest son, Budget Undersecretary Mario L. Relampagos, dabbles in photography.   


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