J. (Jeremias) Elizalde Navarro (1924-1999, Philippines) was born in Antique, Philippines. He was  both a proficient painter and sculptor. His devotion to the visual arts spanned 40 years of drawing, printmaking, graphic designing, painting and sculpting. His masks carved in hardwood merge the human and the animal, his paintings consist of abstracts and figures in oil and watercolour, and his assemblages fuse found objects and metal parts.

Source: National Commission for Culture and the Arts, Philippines