All Images 2009 © Glenn Bernabe
Born in Manila, Philippines, September 2, 1971.
Glenn Bernabe is a Filipino-Canadian Markham resident. As a graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, he studied illustration under the guidance of renowned artists/illustrators such as James Hill, Anita Kunz, Ken Dallison and Gerard Gauci. It was there where he developed a love for the pastel medium. It was also revealed to him there of the potential of using ideas and philosophies taken from personal experience and expressing them to give greater meaning and importance. These are the things that he continues to push in his numerous figurative and illustrative works.
He is a signature member of The Pastel Artists Canada as well as a local member of The Markham Group of Artists; He was awarded The Grand Prize at The Pastel Artists Canada Purely Pastel National Juried Exhibition in 2008 and has received other honours in several regional and nationwide juried competitions. In April 2010 as well as back in 2003, He made the Top 100 in the Pastel Journal Magazine's Pastel 100 Annual International Juried Competition. As an illustrator, He has worked with several publishing companies in the past like Orca Book Publishers, Scholastic Canada and Cobblestone Publishing. As well, he has been teaching many classes and workshops in pastel and portraiture to artists since 2003.
“My paintings use everyday situations to show quiet moments that suggest ideas surrounding individuality, purity and spirituality through the use of banal settings from our world. My purpose is to show that on the surface what may seem like loneliness, there is hope and it is beautiful, peaceful and bliss.” (Glenn Bernabe, 2003).
