'MY works revolve around human figures, significant cultural events and quintessential Filipino scenes. I started my art journey by observing the world around me at a young age and was mostly self-taught. I enjoy painting ordinary scenes of day-to-day life. I believe in the beauty of the ordinary. The most touching and telling of any story is better felt when captured in infinite duration as in a realism painting,' says Jun Impas, a renowned and multiawarded realist and portrait visual artist from Cebu.

Capturing Philippine culture is what inspires him the most, particularly painting the ordinary life of indigenous people (IP). While many of the Filipinos now live in the modern world, Impas wants to seize the opportunity to document the defining societal norms of the IPs, based on his observations living in Surigao during his younger years.