Lauren Mark M. Libunao
Garlic Painter
I am a self-taught visual artist from Nueva Ecija. My masterpieces are unique because I use Garlic extract as paint. I'm the only one doing garlic painting in the whole world. The proof here is the recognition I received from Ripley's Believe It or Not! in Orlando, Florida, USA, in the year 2009. My specialty is portraiture. I have done Garlic painting portraits with several famous personalities. The most special of these are the lifesize portraits of Brother Eduardo V. Manalo, the late Former President Benigno Simeon Aquino III, Former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte, and President Ferdinand Bongbong Marcos Jr. They all accepted these with joy. This is a great honor for me, except that my painting medium is unique; I don't have what I call my own style. because I can do everything and I want to learn everything. I believe that my fantasy, imagination, creativity, and artistry have no limits. surrealism, cubism, figurative, realism, expressionism, and anything else I can handle and study. For me, learning and training talent is a never-ending journey.
