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Reva Diana | Artist | Painter | Printmaker

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Filipina artist, cookie witch, hobby hoarder, art traveler, seeker of the divine.

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Okay. Tomorrow you get to see everything.

For months I’ve shared fragments—pastel drawings, layers being destroyed, faces disappearing under oil, egg tempera bringing them back, flashes of gold.

Tomorrow, you get the whole thing.

Babae.

Ten portraits of Filipina women in Canada, built around identity, memory and the search for the divine.

Tomorrow. October 10.
cSPACE Marda Loop
Reception 5:30–8 PM

Come meet the goddesses. by @ravenbluecreative

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The opening reception for BABAE: Meditations on the Divine is tomorrow.

Join us to view the exhibition, meet artists Reva Diana and Ava Diana, and learn more about the stories and creative process behind the work.

October 10, 2026
5:30 PM
Level 2 Hallway Gallery
cSPACE Marda Loop
1721 29 Avenue SW, Calgary

Everyone is welcome. by @ravenbluecreative

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Tickets are SOLD OUT for The Colonial Gendering of the Filipinx, led by Dr. May Farrales, a professor of Geography and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University.

Join us tomorrow for conversation, reflection, and collaborative art-making exploring Filipinx identity, colonialism, migration, and gender.

October 10, 2026
2–5 PM
RGO Treehouse, Suite 475
cSPACE Marda Loop
1721 29 Avenue SW, Calgary

Tickets are free get your ticket before it's sold out. Link in bio.

Presented in support of BABAE: Meditations on the Divine. by @ravenbluecreative

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So what exactly is Babae?

BABAE is the Tagalog word for woman.

It started with Filipinas in Vancouver and Calgary. I photographed and chatted with each of them, then built their portraits through layers of drawing, oil, egg tempera and gold leaf.

Babae opening reception: October 10 at cSPACE Marda Loop. by @ravenbluecreative

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Ten months. Ten women. A frankly questionable number of hours. 😅

On October 10, Babae officially leaves my studio and goes out into the world.

These paintings began as conversations with Filipina women about identity, home, and one question:

If you were a goddess, what kind of goddess would you be?

Their answers became part of the work.

October 10
cSPACE Marda Loop
Reception 5:30–8 PM

The countdown begins.

Thank you to @calgaryartsdev for their generous support. by @ravenbluecreative

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Nothing terrifying here. Just deliberately ruining hours of careful work.

Every layer gets precious. Then the next one comes along and destroys it.

Details disappear. Things get buried. Destruction is inevitable.

The trick is trusting that something better survives the wreckage.

@qvarantine.events showed me the way. by @ravenbluecreative

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Building BABAE, one layer at a time. by @ravenbluecreative

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BABAE: Meditations on the Divine brings together two artists, two generations, and two distinct perspectives.

Mixed-media artist Reva Diana looks outward, drawing from conversations with ten Filipinas about life, divinity, and being Filipina in Canada.

Her daughter, photographer Ava Diana, turns inward to create an intimate reflection of her own experience.

Together, their work explores identity, inheritance, womanhood, and the ways we encounter the divine within ourselves and one another.

Join us at cSPACE Marda Loop for the art reception in the Level 2 Hallway Gallery at 5:30PM.

A supporting free workshop led by Dr. May Farrales will take place October 10, from 2–5 PM, in the RGO Treehouse. All are welcome.

More details to come.

This project is made possible with the support of @calgaryartsdev

#Babae #MeditationsOnTheDivine #FilipinaArtists #FilipinoCanadian #FilipinaInCanada #CalgaryArts #YYCArts #MixedMediaArt #Photography #cSPACEMardaLoop #yyclcl by @ravenbluecreative

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The pastel drawings are done. Now comes the fun part—destruction!

The oil layer is about adding colour, but it’s also about obscuring, breaking apart, and abstracting what I spent so much time carefully drawing.

Here are three close-up snapshots from three completed oil layers. Once the oil is dry, I’ll move into egg tempera, pulling some of those lost details back to the surface.

Build it up. Break it down. Build it again.

Thanks to @qvarantine.events for helping me with letting go of the fear. But this layer is still definitely gut wrenching.

This series is made possible with support from Calgary Arts Development @calgaryartsdev by @ravenbluecreative

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The pastel layer of the 10th and final panel is complete!

There is something a little insane about experimenting with a new process while also creating work for an exhibition. But what’s the fun if you don’t take a few risks?

Ten drawings down. Now, we paint.

The series opens October 10 at cSPACE. Hope to see you there!

This series is made possible with support from Calgary Arts Development @calgaryartsdev by @ravenbluecreative

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The pastel layer of the last of my Vancouver goddesses is complete—at least, the last for now.

I’ve enjoyed creating these portraits so much that I already know I want to continue the series beyond this first group. There are so many more stories, experiences, and goddesses I want to explore.

So this is the last Vancouver goddess of this first batch, but definitely not the last Vancouver goddess. On now to the last of my Calgary goddesses

This series is made possible with support from Calgary Arts Development @calgaryartsdev by @ravenbluecreative

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Another pastel layer complete.

One thing I’ve loved about this series is how each goddess has pushed me to draw something I’ve never drawn before. After years of mostly drawing the human figure, it was so much fun figuring out how to draw this wolf.

Every portrait teaches me something new.

This series is made possible with support from Calgary Arts Development @calgaryartsdev by @ravenbluecreative

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