Dino Dante K. Pajao was born and raised in Maasin City, Southern Leyte, Philippines. An architect by profession currently residing in the Philippines, he also lived in Singapore for 13 years and worked for an international landscape architecture design firm.

He started painting at a young age, but didn’t get serious with watercolor painting until his college years. He has shown mastery in realism, portraits, figures, still life, landscape and seascapes. He is an honorary member of the Philippine Guild of Watercolorists (PGW), founding member of Cebu Watercolor Society (CWS), and a member of the Singapore Watercolour Society (SWS).  In 2015, he participated in the Northwest Watercolor Society’s (NWWS) 75th International Open Juried Exhibition in Seattle, Washington USA. He is also the first Filipino who placed top 10 in IWS’s first online contest.  He actively participates in the Japan International Watercolor Institute under the category of JIWI Internet Exhibition of Excellent Watercolor Painting and World of Modern Watercolor, as well as the International Watercolor Festival “World of High Watercolor” in Russia.

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