Lucy Fernandez and Dondi Katigbak in two-man show

MANILA, Philippines - Lucy Fernandez and Dondi Katigbak mount a show about horses, on view at 45-A Broadway St., New Manila, Quezon City.

English artist Lucinda Jackson Fernandez grew up with horses in England. Trained in classical riding in Portugal under Mestre Nuno Oliveira, she moved to the Philippines 18 years ago and now with the same passion as she used to ride, she paints vibrant horses and abstracts in acrylic.

“I think I have loved horses from the first moment I saw them,” she recalls. “In this exhibit, I honor them as the free beautiful playful spirits that they are. Powerful, noble and enduring they have been used as transport, to go to war, to race, to hunt and to be ridden just for pleasure.

Paintings by Lucy Fernandez

Dondi Katigbak began painting in his teens but his ink sketches used to fill his notebooks in school way before that. His first solo exhibit was in 2007 and he will show some pieces this November at the Antwert Art Fair in Belgium.

Dondi has five life-size horses on display at the L.A.R.K. Gallery along Broadway Avenue, corner 11th Street in New Manila that has been welded, hammered and painted into fluid lines and dynamic poses. His medium is black-iron sheets that are welded and built up and then painted black or bronze. Dondi is currently working with Lito Mondejar to make horses modeled from clay that will be cast in bronze.

For information, e-mail lucyfernandez777@gmail.com, call 721-4674 or e-mail at dtkatigbak@gmail.com.