Edwin is a Toronto based artist that moved from the Philippines to Toronto during his age of seven. His path on working as an artist was tough, he cherishes every opportunity that comes along the way.
The artist loves to work with colors on portrait-based paintings. The paintings explore the expression of emotions shown on people's faces, trying to seek engagement of emotional connection from viewers.
The artist is interested in exploring the emotions shown in elder people through the great use of colors in close-ups in this series.
He thinks elder people, who are in their later stage of life, as well as the group of people that has the most experience in life.
Their wrinkles almost have the ability to show the stories they went through to people. Each of them might be representing a deep-hearted, memorable story, either happy or sad.