Pacquiao’s ‘knockout artist’ visits Espino
LINGAYEN–Claireyenne Malanyaon, resident painter of world’s pound-for-pound boxing champion Manny Pacquiao, welcomed an invitation to stage a painting exhibit within the year at the Pangasinan Training and Development Center.
This developed as the artist, whose mother hails from Bugallon town, made a courtesy call to Governor Amado T. Espino, Jr. last August 24, bringing with her a portfolio of paintings of the boxing global superstar.
The lady artist, who was overwhelmed by the hospitality conferred to her by the provincial government, has accepted the invitation of Espino to set up an exhibit here.
She said she will donate one of her masterpieces to the Governor to be displayed at the Urduja House.
The artist, whose pen name is Claire Yen, received her big break after she chronicled the fights of Pacquiao via her painting and eventually caught the attention of the boxing champ that made him endorse her to illustrious sports artists like LeRoy Neiman, Stephen Holland and Richard Slone later on.
Clair Yen, monikered as the “Knockout Artist of Manny Pacquiao,” visited Pangasinan to renew old ties with her mother’s kin and relatives and was the guest of honor and speaker during one of the events of the Rotary Club of Downtown Dagupan and the More than the Conquerors Breakfast Club at the Lenox Social Hall last August 23.
Aside from being a painter, Claire Yen is also a writer and martial arts black-belter.
Her mother, the former Syncletica Bugayong Toledo, is a classmate of former Lingayen Mayor Josefina “Iday” Castańeda at the Saint Columban’s College-Lingayen in high school. (PIO/Ruby R. Bernardino)
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