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BUTCH JACINTO studied Fine Arts at the University of the East School of Music and Fine Arts where he majored in Advertising. He took on a job as tourist guide for a shipping company while still in school to be able to support his studies. After leaving school he worked as Creative Visualizer for Philippine Refining Company (PRC). After thirteen years, he moved to another department in the same company to work as a salesman.
After his stint with PRC, Jacinto put up his own company together with some partners called CDEX System. He was the brain of this company, who does all the designs and the selling functions. CDEX System specialized in fabricating the so-called advertising collaterals, like brochures, newspaper ads, websites, banners, posters, stationary, etc. Jacinto is tech savvy. He is proficient in computer graphics, using adobe, photoshop, and several other programs in his design work. There was even a time when he's into conceptualizing television game shows. Jacinto left CDEX after three years. He then established ADFAB - which was in the same line of business as CDEX System. ADFAB became very successful because of its multinational clientele.
When asked which artist is his favorite, Jacinto said that he admires Fernando Amorsolo the most - an admiration shown in Jacinto's paintings which are of the classical realist sort. He was also influenced and inspired by contemporaries like Danny Pangan and John Wesley Bautista, who were his classmates in art school. Jacinto likes to paint dark forest scenes enlivened and lightened with white rivers and falls. He also does portraits and still-lifes.
Jacinto's two paintings (below) for the Krusada sa Kalikasan exhibit are perhaps homages to the place he calls home - Antipolo. Although fast becoming urbanized, there are still perhaps pockets of raw woods still existing there. These paintings may be Jacinto's way of preserving for posterity the Antipolo he knew. The title of the second painting, Surviving, is suggestive, not only of the state of Antipolo's woodlands, but also of his own. Jacinto, you see, is a stroke survivor. Although he is relatively okay now, his limb movements are now limited. He can walk, yes, but he can no longer use his right hand for painting. But being the survivor that he is, Jacinto taught his left hand how to handle a brush - which his left hand learned with flying colors, so to speak - as attested to by the two masterful paintings he exhibited.
Butch Jacinto lives in Antipolo City with wife Mary Ann Legaspi, whom he met in school. They have four children - two boys and two girls - who are all professionals now. Jacinto sent all his kids to exclusive schools, with one even enrolling in flying school, which could be very expensive. His being able to pay his kids' steep tuition fees is gauge of how successful Jacinto's advertising business was. Today, Jacinto is into painting full time.
Jacinto's two paintings (below) for the Krusada sa Kalikasan exhibit are perhaps homages to the place he calls home - Antipolo. Although fast becoming urbanized, there are still perhaps pockets of raw woods still existing there. These paintings may be Jacinto's way of preserving for posterity the Antipolo he knew. The title of the second painting, Surviving, is suggestive, not only of the state of Antipolo's woodlands, but also of his own. Jacinto, you see, is a stroke survivor. Although he is relatively okay now, his limb movements are now limited. He can walk, yes, but he can no longer use his right hand for painting. But being the survivor that he is, Jacinto taught his left hand how to handle a brush - which his left hand learned with flying colors, so to speak - as attested to by the two masterful paintings he exhibited.
Butch Jacinto lives in Antipolo City with wife Mary Ann Legaspi, whom he met in school. They have four children - two boys and two girls - who are all professionals now. Jacinto sent all his kids to exclusive schools, with one even enrolling in flying school, which could be very expensive. His being able to pay his kids' steep tuition fees is gauge of how successful Jacinto's advertising business was. Today, Jacinto is into painting full time.
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| Rocks and Stream, acrylic on canvas, 24 X 24 inches |
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| Surviving, acrylic on canvas, 24 X 24 inches |
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