Jayme Emille Lucas (b. 1996) is an artist from Tarlac, where she grew up surrounded by the complex history of the Luisita sugar estate. That early exposure to social and political unrest continues to shape her work today. She studied Advertising at Tarlac State University before pursuing her master’s in Fine Arts at the University of Santo Tomas. Over the past few years, she’s shown her work in solo and group exhibitions across the Philippines. In 2019, she received the grand award for oil and acrylic painting in the Metrobank Art and Design Excellence competition, and in 2020, she was awarded a Tuklas grant through the Eskinita Art Farm, which marked her transition into becoming a full-time artist.

Her paintings often begin with the body—fragmented, obscured, or under pressure—and unfold into layered reflections on space, memory, and survival. Figures appear bruised, scorched, or partially concealed; hands stack like offerings or casualties. She works mostly in oil, but also experiments with digital prints and sculpture, using materials that carry weight and residue. Many of her visual references come from her home, her studio, and the emotional atmosphere of being a woman in a confined world. There's always a sense of quiet tension in her work—something withheld, something trying to breathe through the walls.

For Lucas, making art is a way of looking inward while staying rooted in the realities around her. It’s a process of digging into personal and collective memory, and of finding meaning in overlooked details. Her work doesn’t try to explain—it offers space to sit with discomfort, to witness the slow unfolding of something intimate and unresolved.