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Romy Galicia is an occupational therapist and a versatile self-taught artist whose artworks are constantly evolving. He uses different medium, styles and genre that includes but not limited to pen & ink, pencil, charcoal, oil pastels, acrylic, oils on canvas, etc. His interest covers a broad spectrum of subjects such as landscapes, seascapes, architecture/ buildings, portraits of people, figure drawings/paintings, nightlights, sports, still lifes, pets/ animals, cartoons and inspirational illustrations. He is a member of the American Society of Portrait Artists among many other artist associations and artist meetup groups in Southern California. He had won artistic awards and citations and had displayed his artworks in Merkly Galleries, South Arkansas Arts Center and various art exhibitions in the U.S. His artworks are in both public and private collections including El Dorado Community Hospice, Share Foundation, Accident and Injury Center of South Arkansas, Medical Center of South Arkansas, Jerry and Linda Swart, Linda Stringfellow, Mark and Kimberly Carr, Daniel and Alayne Hoover and many others. He was and is currently collaborating with the SHARE FOUNDATION to donate 80% of the sales proceeds of select pen & ink artworks to fund a health-care scholarship and a hospice in El Dorado, Arkansas where he lived for 5 years as a token of gratitude for providing him the scholarship and support in completing his undergraduate studies in occupational therapy. He now lives in Southern California.
Artist's Statement
"To me, creating a fine art in any medium, style or genre is an expression of my inner self... chaotic yet exudes itself into some form of order and structure that is conforming to my outside self and the world I struggle to recreate. My ever-growing fascination of colors, shapes, lines, textures serve as the building block and foundation to recreate and reexamine order, solidity, movement and style that manifest itself into my ever-increasing and ever-evolving art portfolio.
Photographic images of people, animals, places and man-made and/or natural objects are filtered through my optic receptors and resonates into my inner right-brain hemisphere and become so vivid and real that triggers synaptic interactions of nuerons and send messages to my right hand and fingers to pick up a pen or ink, a brush, an oil or acrylic paint, a canvas and start to reconstruct the images into works of aunthentic fine arts. There is nothing more soothing and refreshing for me to see the final and tangible product ready to be hung and exhibited for the world to see."
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