ReelHeART International Film Festival

Warren Hoyano was born and raised in Montreal. He now lives and works as an abstract watercolour painter in Brampton, Ontario. He is an award winning artist who has participated in various group and juried shows.

The medium of watercolour attracts him because of its ability to make both dense, opaque marks and transparent, stain-like marks. It also allows him to easily manipulate and erode the applied pigment. This creates not only deliberate effects but also random, found effects. Often he finds inspiration in insignificant and ephemeral things such as shadows, stains and accidental, everyday marks.

Warren’s present direction is toward a monochromatic or near monochromatic palette. This direction is influenced by the strange way that x-ray images, ultrasound images, and photographic negatives portray the world.