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ILMA ARTS STUDIO opens its doors to the public with its initial show in Orangeville. Multi-media artist Ilma Barayuga-Doherty shares her skills in the Performing, Literary and Visual Arts. The artist arrived in Orangeville in 2005 and have tutored individuals on Painting. She also taught Photography at the Learning Enterprise the winter of 2007. Ilma migrated in Canada from the Philippines and had a prolific art career using multi-media arts. She and her son, I. R. Ventura have been featured in international cable shows “The Global Filipino” and “Filipiniana” as Global Filipino Multimedia Mother and Child Artists by ABS-CBN International Television Network. She taught Theater Arts, Speech, Photography and Painting in St. Scholastica’s College and in her own Angel Isis Studio. Ilma’s art career started after graduating Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communications. She worked for Teatro Pilipino, the Cultural Center of the Philippines’ main theater company as Stage Actress and Stage Manager. Shakespeare’s Hamlet was Ilma’s initial Stage Management production. Ilma was one one of the best Stage Managers in the Philippines during her theater stint. With the prodding of another great director, the late Adul de Leon, Ilma finally succumbed to an acting offer. Her first acting role was Julie in August Strindberg’s Miss Julie. William Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde, Albert Camus, Bertolt Brecht, Neil Simons and Henrik Ibsen were only among those great playwrights she has had the experience acting or stage managing for. Ilma was later on given an offer to teach English Speech and Drama to St. Scholastica’s College. It was after five years of teaching Speech and Drama that she got interested in the Visual Arts. She learned how to draw and paint from self-help books and practiced daily for 5 years before she actually had her first solo exhibit with her son, I.R. who became a violin prodigy at age 7. They both became famous for their unique multi-media art exhibits which showcased all their different talents in writing, painting, photography, music and the theater arts. They were asked to perform at a Grandstand to a 15 million audience during one of the Independence Day celebration doing a duet in violin and guitar. In 1996 Ilma started her very first solo show which sold 40 paintings out of the 60 she featured. Up to date, she has sold about 400 works of paintings and drawings and more than a hundred original photographs. Ilma will rock Orangeville with the opening of Ilma Arts Studio in 185 Diane Drive with her debut exhibit entitled “Catharsis”. It features Orangeville and the Hills of Headwaters. It runs from July10-October 15 and is one of the open studios participating in Headwaters Arts Festival. |
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July 1, 2010 |
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Volume 1, Issue 1 |
