![]() ![]() But thats when I approached her to do a show for Finale and her first show was completely sold out. It would be the night before the show and they would be hanging paintings that were still wet. Vita recalls, "They were always running around in those days. This is where her work was first spotted by Vita Sarenas, the owner of Finale Art Gallery, which has been called by the Far Eastern Economic Review as "Manilas nexus of serious (art) collectors." Part of an extremely talented and successful UP class, which includes Popo San Pascual, Pardo de Leon and Waling Gorospe, perhaps no event was more significant to her professional career than when she participated in a show at the Pinaglabanan Galleries as one of the students of renowned artist Chabet. ![]() Events in my life just seemed to point me towards that direction." She has been multi-awarded in her almost 20- year career, which she describes as having started almost as an accident: "Being a professional artist didnt come as a conscious decision for me. Known as "Keka" to her friends, this one of six sisters, who once danced ballet with Lisa Macuja, graduated in 1987 from the University of the Philippines with a fine arts degree. ![]() Although the term young artist is usually reserved for young, non-established artists, San Francisco based Francesca Enriquez, although young in years, is one artist who is not only established, but accomplished, successful, not to mention one of the most talented in her generation. ![]()
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