Socorro Pinky Peralta

I discovered art, or maybe art “discovered” me, when I was a young girl. My early artistic inclinations were nurtured by the oil paintings of my grandfather, a self-taught artist. Visits to my grandfather’s house meant watching him paint in his makeshift studio, absorbing every brushstroke he made on his canvas. In a sense, I was an empty canvas – an impressionable mind that was open to infinite possibilities.
Years later, while I was studying Interior Design at UP Diliman, I discovered another medium of art –watercolor. Through the summer workshops I attended, a new passion had begun to spring forth, blossoming season after season of my artistic life.
In 2016, I embraced watercolor painting in full expression and pursuit. Watercolor has become a way of capturing the fluidity and translucence not palpable in other media. Its immediacy and effervescence provide a more spontaneous and energetic expression as a brushstroke releases water and pigment to do their work. Painting with watercolor is a process that allows me the space to be intuitive, and at the same time to be experimental, exploring the many possibilities of watercolor.

When in Manila wrote about my first show:
“Her brush speaks of the immediacy and serendipity of he...

Studied Bachelor Of Interior Design
University of the Philippines, 1989-1992
Studying Masters of Fine Arts - 2021 to present - University of the Philippines

One Woman Show
On The Edge
Nov 2020, Gateway Gallery


Breath
Oct 2021
Bonifacio Global City

Anyong Tubig
Images On Water . Exhibit of The Masters
May 2021