Jason Gonzalez is a Filipino artist and an unpaid carer of people with disability. He moved to the UK in 2011 to marry his love, a local of Northern Ireland. Forced by challenging circumstances to stop work to become a full-time carer, he turned to art for a sense of meditative peace and creativity. This eventually led to the realisation that this is what he is meant to do, a necessity and a passion intertwined.

 

Now in his 50s, it didn't take long for Jason to find his artistic voice. Jason paints solely for peace and the planet, trying to contribute to nature conservation and human wellbeing through everything he does. 

 

"I typically paint uplifting and harmonious works to remind myself to see whatever good we still have in the here and now. There's enough violence and chaos in our fragile world, so I aim to show in my portraits and earthscapes what is worth appreciating, inclusive and hopeful. Maybe this can help conquer our current universal tendency towards despair when we look around or watch the news." While Jason plants trees (656 so far), functions as a carer and lives as simply as he can, his goal is to give a significant percentage of his art profits to organisations that are more effective than himself in providing humanitarian interventions and sustaining the planet.

 

In July of 2025, Jason broke into the UK art world with his first solo exhibition, 'Where Nature Meets Us' in the Higgin Gallery, Belfast. His numerous works have now been collected in Europe, Asia and the Middle East. 

 

Jason lives and works in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.