Maria Angelica attended Columbia University in New York where she studied Economics and Visual Arts. After finishing her degree, she spent years working as a management consultant in New York, while keeping her art studio alive. With the intense juggling act, she learned the importance of discipline. She is currently in Singapore doing her Master of Fine Arts in La Salle.

Her style is characterized by bold colors, portraiture and circular forms that create a sense of wholeness and calm. She draws inspiration from personal history, especially from the people around her and the vibrant memory of her late grandmother, which greatly influenced her pursuit of colors. Maria Angelica can still picture her grandmother in her signature bright printed blouses, with her distinctive perfume announcing her arrival. It was her grandmother’s way of moving through the world with presence and joy. This memory has stayed and has become an essential part of her creation.

Her earlier series “Heiko” came from stone stacking – she was drawn to that meditative ritual of balance. Her current work, “Fishbowl,” evolved from there. She finds the greatest joy in having a non-verbal language to articulate complex ideas, while overcoming her biggest challenge of maintaining discipline and trusting the process when nothing is working. And if her work opens a door to understanding the culture where she came from, that is already a win for her.

Rovee is currently a User Experience and Game Design university student at the joint program offered by the Singapore Institute of Technology and Digipen Institute of Technology in Redmond, Washington. Her artistic work is inspired by life cycles and finding harmony between earth and the lifeform.

Rovee’s curiosity with photography began when she visited the Singapore Zoo, with the frustration of failing to capture the “cinematic” beauty of a wild monkey on a phone camera. This ignited her passion and taught her that moments are fragile and it requires care to preserve. Her style is still evolving, but at its core, it stays rooted in emotionally-driven storytelling. Her goal is not to capture what a scene looks like, but what it feels like at that moment. In photography, she aims to create images that evoke raw emotion, spark curiosity, and invite personal interpretation from the viewers. In digital art, she aims to create subliminal images that ignite the conscious mind to create its own harmonious narration.

For Rovee, every photo is a second chance at that monkey, an attempt to honor the beauty, humor, and wonder hidden in the ordinary. As she continues to grow in her journey, she hopes to transform the images captured into something that can create memories for those looking right back. And even if one of her photographs makes the audience pause or smile, then she feels she has succeeded.

Helena’s artistic journey began in her childhood days and was inspired by her older brother. She will doodle on anything including placemats, white boards, wooden tables, sidewalks or even her own hands. She started her art class when she was eight and hasn’t stopped since.

She is currently sharpening her art skills as a university student in Design and Technology at Parsons School of Design in New York.

Her artistic journey is characterized by expressing the forces of an individual’s inner feelings. She focuses heavily on emotions, often creating pieces with a more introspective tone. In paintings, she works with a variety of mediums, including acrylic, watercolor, gouache, markers and digital. In photography, she is more observational and poetic. She likes to capture precious moments of everyday life as she draws inspiration from human experiences and emotions. More recently, in 2024, she expanded her photography while living in Tokyo to document her overseas experiences.

As an artist, Helena aims to find beauty in the ordinary. She loves seeking out and appreciating the small, simple details that other people might overlook. This allows her to connect deeply to her surroundings. She enjoys the complex challenges of translating complex feelings into visual art that can be universally understood and appreciated.