Jesusa Marjorie “Joy” Prudencio-Calanasan (b.1978) has been artistic and creative since she was a child, expressing her abilities in drawing, crafts, bonsai cultivation, even co-hosting in an infotainment TV show as a Mass Communications student at Miriam College, among others.

In recent years, now a wife and mother of two, Calanasan attempted painting works of art in order to fill their home with her own artworks. Through social media, family and friends were able to admire and recognize the extraordinary flair of her artworks. In 2016, she started to accept commissioned pieces where the artist slowly but surely attracted a steady following. Since then, Joy Calanasan has ventured onto art exhibitions both locally and internationally, and currently guests in a monthly podcast of an acrylic-pouring group boasting of 97,000 members worldwide. Most recently, Galerie Joaquin enlisted her as one of its up-and-coming artists.