Collection: Nell Campos

 Nell Campos has been a full time artist since he decided to pursue his passion to art and leaved his career in construction as engineer in the year 2000.

As early as 1973, his passion for ART can already be discerned when He became a Grade III Silver Medalist elementary student in an Inter-Grade school Art competition. Later on, he became a small artist of his school doing all the drawings needed for presentation in subjects of several teachers to their students.  From drawings of:  Folktale characters, Christmas decorations to details and parts of respiratory, digestive and skeletal systems in Biology subjects. With no idea… he will end up an artist later on his life.

He dreamt of entering art school when he graduated in high school, but since his father was a Chemical Engineer, He was persuaded to enroll in a technical course.

Instead, he took up Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, and graduated from University of Perpetual Help System Dalta in Las Piñas in 1989

In 1985, he met an expressionist artist William Yu, who influenced him to study art and became his mentor and his best friend, a Godfather to his mentor’s youngest son …Billy.

 Later on, he met an impressionist artist Roger Gutierrez, Dante Hipolito a realist and Isabelo Quilez, a figurative artist.  Since then, his determination to become an artist was triggered because of his eagerness to learn more from three different artists with different forte exploring the world of art.

 He started painting while he was studying in his course in Civil Engineering. After a year, he became a member of Spectrum Group headed by Ibarra Dela Rosa in Philippine Women’s University of fine Arts.

Since then, he participated in several art competitions such as Asean Art Competition; A finalist at Espanidad Annual Art Competition at the Spanish Embassy; A finalist at Bamboo Organ on the spot painting competition, The first Filipino artist art festival, Metro Bank Art Competition and Shell Annual Art Competition. He also joined several art exhibits of Spectrum Group Aliktiktik Group and Las Piñas Artist Society in his early age.

When he graduated college in 1989, he wanted to practiced his course in Civil Engineering abroad, He was able to worked as a Site Engineer in Alzaibag Engineers Contractors in Riyadh, K.S.A. from 1990 to 1992. When contract in Saudi Arabia was completed. He put up King Charles Konstrukt with his older brother Melchor and did construction works in Manila and Cavite.

Part time, He did paintings for Heritage Art Center, Alegria Home Decors, Galleria Aurora and Jo-Liza Arts and Antiques to continue the development of his art.

 He worked abroad again in 1996 in Hyundai Engineering and Construction and assigned as a Site Engineer in a large project in Singapore, Signature Park Condominium/25 buildings of condominiums project.