A multi-awarded multi-media Filipino artist in the multicultural art circuit locally and internationally. Norma is also a freelance journalist, radio broadcaster, writer and author as well as a community leader advocate for social justice. As an artist, she has had major solo exhibitions in the Philippines and in Australia, has been in many international and interstate art events including the Adelaide International Fringe, Adelaide Festival, Mino Art Ceramics Festival (Japan) as well as in a number of Touring Art Exhibitions overseas. Her works have sold to collectors and art enthusiasts in Australia, Asia, Europe and the USA. She specializes in a variety of art and craft media using oil, water colour, pastel, charcoal, acrylic, pen and ink, lino-printing, mosaic, decoupage, ceramics, pyrography and various crafts. She also experiments on styles that combine novelty with old traditional and folk design for nouveau art in 3 D mixed media,