Sketching and drawing were ways to pass the time when CHRISTINA LEE CENA, who also goes by YNA, was a child. Although her ultimate passion is with Fashion Designing the hobby stuck around. Her love for painting is just another way of putting a graphical journal to her life - remembering all her precious and shared moments when she was a kid. YNA always keep a handy notepad of drawings, sketches and illustrations of human studies to landscape, cityscape and florals that soon she transferred these to an empty canvas. As she [
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Sketching and drawing were ways to pass the time when CHRISTINA LEE CENA, who also goes by YNA, was a child. Although her ultimate passion is with Fashion Designing the hobby stuck around. Her love for painting is just another way of putting a graphical journal to her life - remembering all her precious and shared moments when she was a kid. YNA always keep a handy notepad of drawings, sketches and illustrations of human studies to landscape, cityscape and florals that soon she transferred these to an empty canvas. As she begin to paint her depicted figures, male and female on a colorful and vibrant canvas, YNA finds it very interesting to associate her ultimate passion with her paintings by fashioning and dressing up her figures. She said it is like playing and dressing up her Barbie Dolls.
Education:
University of the East - Bachelor of Science in Fine Arts
Technological University of the Philippines - Product Design and Development Technology
Representation:
Philartsians Art Studio and Gallery – Angeles City, Philippines 2006
Art Treasure Gallery – Manila, Philippines 2005
Le Grande Art Gallery – Angeles City, Philippines 2004
Selected Recognition:
Kapampangan Young Artists Award - Woman Division, 2004
2nd Place , Young Artists National Art Competition, 2003
Gold Medalist , The Creative Art and Writing Awards, 2002
Bronze Medalist , The Creative Art and Writing Awards, 2001
3rd Place , Inter-School Art Competition, 2000
Selected Group Exhibition:
Baguio Summer Arts Festival, UP Baguio, Philippines, 2004
CAB Art Festival, Angeles City, Pampanga, 2003 [
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