Mila Delgado-Enage, Cynthia Santos-Campbell and Marie Gabrielle Escaler-Saenz learned to paint from lessons with Pol Mesina. They are collaborating in this show dubbed as Reminiscence: Three Generations Exhibition.

It all started with former Maryknoll classmates painting together. Then Cynthia Santos-Campbell, her classmate’s mother Mila Delgado-Enage and her classmate’s daughter Marie Gabrielle Escaler-Saenz joined forces to put up this exhibit. Mila, Cynthia and Gabbie painted at Cynthia’s mother’s garden terrace in Makati.

Mila represents the first generation in this exhibit. Her watercolor pieces are mostly landscapes and still-lifes. She started taking lessons under painter Araceli Limcaco-Dans then took up Chinese Painting with the Hau Chiok couple in the Philippines and continued with workshops in Vancouver, Canada.

Mila also took printmaking under Manuel Rodriguez and painting under Ibarra de la Rosa. She is a former curator of the Manila Hilton Art Center and lecturer on Philippine art, culture and traditions. Her intaglio print Three Women is currently on display at the National Museum and her Azotea is part of the Miriam (Maryknoll) College art collection.

Cynthia of Princeton, New Jersey represents the second generation in this exhibit. She is exhibiting several pieces done in oil pastel on sandpaper and felt and watercolor. Although she was inclined to the arts at a young age, this Maryknoll alumna did not hone her skills until she was 35 and living in Bangkok. There, she spent mornings painting in watercolor under the tutelage of Acharn Aree Soothipunt and Suchart Vongthong culminating in two successful exhibitions. She participated in a juried exhibition as a member of the Alamo Daville Artists’ Society in California. While in Princeton, she took courses in graphite drawing under the New Jersey-based French artist Marcel Franquelin and acrylic painting at the Grounds for Sculpture. During annual visits to Manila, Cynthia took classes in oil pastel with Pol Mesina.

Cynthia cites the different mediums she uses as representing different phases in her life. As a docent at the Princeton University Art Museum for the past 10 years, she also has taken a number of courses from Princeton’s Department of Art and Archeology. These courses and frequent visits to the museum exhibitions in Manhattan inspired her to branch out from her comfortable mediums into other artistic endeavors.

The third generation’s Marie Gabrielle started drawing at a very young age. Throughout grade school and high school at St. Scholastica’s College, she was actively involved in the art club and constantly led the school exhibits as president of her elective visual arts class.

She participated in an exhibition with the other students of E.R. Tagle. Dabbing in charcoal drawing, watercolor, oil and pastel, Marie Gabrielle studied under George Gorospe, Jim Orencio, Roland Bay-An in Bencab’s Tam-Awan Baguio studio and currently with Pol Mesina. She will be exhibiting pieces in watercolor, oil pastel and acrylic canvas.