CHATI CORONEL

Chati Coronel (b. 1970, Manila; lives and works in Napanee, Canada) treats painting as ritual, art as sacred ceremony. For over thirty years, she has wielded pigment like a tuning fork, using colour and silhouette to awaken the power of symbols in figure and shape. She calls this process Figurative Spatialism: a practice where figure becomes space, a portal through which sacred truths are at once veiled and revealed.

Trained in architecture but led by spirit, Coronel’s work is a metaphysical excavation. Informed by cosmology and mysticism, each painting is built from many translucent layers—each one a breath, a veil, a step further back toward the source. With a discipline rooted in daily spiritual practice, she uses light, space and process to straddle the fine line between matter and spirit.

Coronel’s work has been shown internationally—Art Basel Hong Kong, Frieze Seoul, The Armory Show New York—and lives in collections across Asia and North America. But its true home is the liminal, the spiritual, the unseen. Chati Coronel is represented by Silverlens Gallery.