"Faces, Phases
and Places"
AN ART COLLECTION
of
Rocille Lampitoc

Fri. May 4 , 2007
Reception
4:30 to 8:30 pm

The Philippine Consulate
161 Eglinton Avenue East. Suite 800

One stop east of Yonge on Eglinton (and Redpath)

With special introductions by Consul General Alejandro Mosquera And Councillor Raymnond Cho

Children at Play - oil on board

FACES, PHASES AND PLACES is Rocille’s tribute to Canada’s multiculturalism. Her work celebrates the multi-faces, multi-culture and multi-phases of life in Canada. In retrospect of the world she lives in. It is a theme that she wishes to document in art to celebrate Canada’s multiculturalism.

“Rocille Lampitoc is one of the new generation of world artists who call Toronto home.”

Much of her work brings to mind far away lands washed with suncolor a legacy, perhaps of her Philippine heritage. But for all of their exotic elements, Rocille's paintings are very much of the here and now.   They capture and express the multi-hued texture of life as she encounters it daily. She sees the global in the local; she reveals the universal in the concrete reality of our city today.

Rocille has been painting since a young age. Her father, an acclaimed portrait artist, encouraged her artistic development first in the Philippines and then later here in Canada.   She continued to develop her talents as an illustrator, painter and designer at Sheridan College.

Since graduating, she has exhibited her work in several group shows. At Cedar Ridge Gallery in Scarborough, her paintings was featured in CFTO television's coverage of this event. Rocille also used her art to reach out to her community. Her paintings was used to celebrate the diverse cultures in Malvern where she lives.

Light, colour, people remain the primary elements in Rocille's art, an art that joins the realistic with the impressionistic to both please the eye and speak to the heart.”

By Frank Bushe