Blue Cosmos Series
signed and dated 1964 (lower right)
oil on canvas
22” x 19” (56 cm x 37 cm)

Paris based Nena Saguil equates painting with the other arts: music and poetry. She trained at the University of the Philippines but was “born an artist” when she came to Paris in 1954, where she studied at the Ecole des Artes Americaine. She painted her work in a very distinctive style, filled with spheres, mandalas, circles, orbs and moons. The meaning behind those various multiple dots and circles and molecular configurations in her paintings are not just there for purely plastic or formalist satisfy but signify a life force at work behind everything in a micro- or macro – universal context.