For Portrait in Umber, Clara poured ink and thinned oil onto a board and guided the flow with a palette knife, a technique she learned while studying traditional marbling in Kyoto. The result hovers between portrait and landscape.
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Clara Villanueva
Portrait in Umber
Oil, ink and marbling on board , 2025
₱64,000
Marbled umber, ink black and cream suggest a face turning away — portraiture at the edge of abstraction.
- Dimensions
- 70 × 90 cm (28 × 35 in)
- Orientation
- Portrait
- Edition
- Original
- Collection
- Gestures
- Authenticity
- Signed certificate included
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The Story
Inspiration & process
About the Artist
Clara Villanueva
Clara paints the human figure as gesture and memory — loose, tender compositions in earth tones and watercolour that hover between portrait and abstraction.
A figure is never just a body. It is a gesture someone made once, and that I am trying to remember.
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