This photo was taken while on board the Maui Princess, behind Phil is the Island of Molokai, his home. We felt this photo best represents his heart and his mission!

We invite you to experience the work of Maui artist Philip Sabado. These paintings channel history and culture through the medium of oil paintings through the artist hand.

His early art education began where he was raised on the island of Molokai. As the youngest of nine children, his mother always put aside enough money for colors and paper for the young artist.

After serving in the army he returned to Honolulu to attend The Honolulu Academy of Art. In 1976 he chose to study art comprehensively in California and attended the prestigious Art Center College of Design as well as the Otis Parsons Institute of Design, both in Los Angeles.

In 1980 he was selected as a member of the presgious Los Angeles Society of Illustrators. He was also selected as well as one of the top fifty illustrators in the United States and was chosen to study at Columbia University in Paris.

On Maui, the Iao Valley State Park signs were created by Sabado in 1999. The year 2000 Sabado returned to his boyhood home, to Molokai, to create a forty foot mural for the library at Kaunakakai School. This was painted for the Hawaii State Foundation on Culture and the Arts. This mural encompassed nine hundred year history of Molokai.

In August 2001 he completed a mural for the Hilton corporation in Honolulu that will grace the entrance to their exclusive Spa. Three original paintings were sold to the Hilton for the private Alii Towers Presidential suites. On all twenty floors of the Hilton Kalia towers you will find prints of Sabado's original floral and hula paintings. Sabado has completed numerous commissions for private investors as well.

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