Chester Calayag
June 27, 1988

​Hi i'm Chester Calayag .I'm a Filipino Artist . I'm lonely, sometimes too Happy,  I am never alone but somehow can't find a place where i belong...Interested in making Art and making Love. Most of my paintings deals with everything and anything i see, my own Story and my interpretations about my own life and how i see this World. Doing a painting is another way to give life, music already did this, now its time for art to give a hand. My Style are Inspired in some Renaissance Paintings Fantasy Painting/Surreal Paintings and Many Modern arts. I'm interested in the works of Salvador Dali, Remedios Varo, Guztav Klimt, Beksinski, Wayne Barlowe , Esao Andrews Francis Bacon and some underrated artist like Stanley Donwood and some local artist friends. Some are Masters from our Past World, others are Still Living and still making history.Actually i don't care about styles, i care about learning the things i know i need to learn, and i learned a lot from them, not just in Art but in Life too. My Inspirations comes from anything like a powerful Love, wonderful Family, Events in the Streets, Smile from the sun, Scene in a movie, Lines in a Poem, Sadness, Failures, Trees soon to be Cutted, Kiss from a Mother Cat to its Kittens, a plastic bag floating in the hi-Way, A raindrops falling from the sky into the hair of a beautiful girl and then i realized that i've been staring at her for an hour, A vegetarian Friend, a toast from a Friends or just smoking a Pot while listening to my favorite songs. anything, anytime inspirations comes, Music really inspires me a lot, it always giving me inspiration and energy to start the day, to start working. anywhere i go. I like paintings with strong lightings and strong darkness, the contrast of that two thing and that is what im working on my painting.  how Light exist in us, how hard to live in Darkness. Light is very important for me, maybe to all of us. but its really hard to find. Most of my works are in Oil on Canvas, but i also like using Acrylic Paints, pens, pencils. i'm still Exploring those mediums and still trying to get better and better. I hope i'm getting better : ) . Its my brother who taught me that Magic Exist, Cloaked as an Art in this New World. He is my Teacher not just in painting but in Art itself. He taught me how beautiful the world is even it was in its worst Spin. I got a lot of friends too who i consider as my brother and teachers. Being a Visual artist, i want people to feel something in my works, just looking at them, stare at them, feel them. No explanations just Feelings. I want to share anything that goes inside this head, i want them to know how i feel, how i am, who i am.  a lot of things to say, words are powerful but sometimes it doesn't matter, it's not enough,  and making art is the only way i know to make all this crazy things possible. I want them to have their privilege to look at my Paintings, analyze them, understand them as much as they can. And for me its a pleasure. I want to paint what i know is true within myself, to see how i see, to understand how i Live. I listen to other people's advices about my work but not All. Most of them are just bullshits. if things will get wrong it will get wrong, just live a life . I'm selling My works if Someone wants it, because i need money, because money is the only thing that makes you look normal in this lonely world, because the sad things here in our world today is that Leaders decided that we have to Pay for Everything and Anything, when the whole world was given to ALL of us Free, but in this time MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND. in this LIFE im living,  By embracing Art, i found Love.Its Beautiful but Soul Destructive and its another Life teacher to be aware of.i believe that nothing is impossible. There's always a possibility in everything, we just have to find the way how to do it. There's always a way, a right way inspite of Many Unhappy People who were always there to block the way. Here , you can see some of my works. and i hope it can give you inspirations even just a little or anything positively or anything that can help you on your way too. Just pick up the things that can help yo, dont take everything that you can see, only those that you really need and those that can help you and always be ready to give them up if time comes.Life is really hard for the living ones,YOU HAVE A LIFE TO LIVE,LOVE THE LIFE YOU LIVE. LIVE THE LIFE YOU LOVE.