Shan Jose is a painter, sculptor, illustrator, graphic artist, art instructor, web designer, computer programmer, facilitator of art workshops, and editorial cartoonist. Currently based in Baguio City, he studied Painting and Visual Communication at the University of the Philippines, and has created commissioned works including murals, metal and terra-cotta sculptures, paintings and caricatures. When not daubing paint on canvas or molding clay, he does graphics and animation for the Web, or teaches arts and crafts to children.