E Bee Bantug

About E Bee

An Asian-American, E Bee Bantug has worked as an advertising and graphics design professional in Asia, Europe, and the US, presently a co-founder & Managing Partner at an IT solutions firm; and since 2013, also a visual artist, professionally.This last decade found her moving from Austin TX to a small mountain town in Southern Oregon, an unexpectedly serendipitous life-altering experience in every way; but most specially, toward a most exciting provocative creative journey characterized by the convergence of her life-long deep interest in the natural world and practice of visual arts, metaphysics and spirituality.

Totally self-taught, E Bee considers her keen appreciation and practice of art in its visual, literary, music and performing forms to be her lifelong art mentor and inspiration. Although she has always noodled, doodled, for as long as she remembers, a hike through the ancient Latgawa tribal land in Oregon one summer afternoon in 2013 transformed her image creation; becoming ‘enLightened’, literally and figuratively. Since that fortuitous hike, natural light and its movement in the Aether has become her signature inspiration, giving rise to her brand LightExpressionistthat characterizes her uniquely original and unrepeatable imagery ever since. She sensed that, at that space time, she got on track with what she suspects is the natural progression toward a state of greater awareness and consciousness, which is the higher hidden/silent calling among all humankind.

Today, driven to discover and prove more to herself than to anyone else about the dynamic interplay of intentionality, consciousness and aetheric energies that surround our fast-paced life, she carves out time almost daily to create her experimental crossover visual imagery. She hopes her work encourages greater personal awareness, inquiry and dialog about quantum reality, its liminal presence, and a new perception about the art of photography. E Bee’s work has been featured in Arizona, Virginia, NYC, San Francisco, Oregon, London, Zurich, Lisbon, and continues to receive awards online, art events, magazines; local and international.

Artist Statement

<<Since 2013, using only my camera as one would a painter’s brush, I literally ‘paint’ abstract conceptual images aiming to penetrate beyond surface realities; somehow unveiling cosmic energies at play.

I am fascinated with natural light and its unpredictable organic movement in the aether. Aether –that 'mysterious substance once thought to suffuse the Universe' as one dictionary puts it– is magnificently alive and pregnant. Indeed, aether (which, as I experience since 2013, still suffuses the Universe) along with natural Light, are both the bountiful medium and matrix that animate and drive my expressionistic abstract, crossover, camera-based art.

Technically, to create my imagery, I deliberately use only my camera as one would a paintbrush; consciously aiming not to capture preexisting objects, people, places; instead, to explore, tease out and create one-of-a-kind, unrepeatable ephemeral original images that break through surface 3D physical reality. Aesthetically and conceptually, I cast out realism totally from my thought and creative process; intuitively allowing my inner vision and consciousness to interact with natural light in time-space at the given moment. Racing after movements of light, I literally ‘paint’ expressionist imagery, unexpected vantage points and perspectives, bridging the edges between photography and painting, both in character and impression. And, later, even more deliberately, I do not Photoshop or digitally manipulate nor add strokes nor filters to my images, post-creation.

Practicing this art form is an unending joyful journey of discovery for me; the rewards of which often reveal astounding thought-provoking breakthroughs behind the proverbial veil and defy the conventions of traditional photography. Each imagery is a visual presence; a communion with the abundantly rich energetic multidimensional reality and vital essence rarely accessible, often hidden, vaguely perceptible, yet which at each moment infinitely surround our busy fast-paced lives.

Ultimately, I invite viewers to look at my images with inner eyes peeled to discover and share a new perspective not only about the very nature of reality but also equally to witness the dynamic role our consciousness play in its creation –each imagery a tribute and testimony to omnipresence and co-creation. The elusive 'is-ness' made evident… Ever naturally, entirely un-Photoshopped.>> (E Bee Bantug)

Exhibits/Awards

2025

I See U 2025, Exhibizone, Selected Artist Colorful Symphony 2025, Biafarin, Selected Artist 2024
Abstractum 2025, Gallerium, Selected Artist Culturally Arts Collective, Selected Artist Masterful Mind, Worldwide Artbook, Selected Artist Magix 2024, Biafarin, Selected Artist
Women United Art Movement.com Artist Spotlight
Artrepreneurs.com Artist Spotlight
It's Liquid Selected Artist Rome Art Fair Int'l 12h ed
Galeria Azur Berlin Selected Artist

2013-2024 Grants Pass Museum of Art, Oregon USA

2020