The artist would say there was no clear delineation between his art and himself. The Visayan visionary is an organizer of art events—including the Visayan Visual Arts exhibit, a conference that pools together talent and the stories behind them for the purpose of bolstering the art scene in the Visayas through the personal support system created among the artists in attendance—and art educator besides being the prolific professional artist that he is. Close to his heart, influence to his style is the respected Professor Nestor Virulan whom the artist worked closely with during his post-graduate thesis in the University of the Philippines. There is the similar indissolubility of emotion and his pieces. Montera’s non-figurative rendition shows the unadulterated, unrefined, non-abstraction of feeling that has yet to be compartmentalized by logic to produce such intense work. Often rapt with the The stifling effect of his “gestural composition”, layering, and “thick, brooding, spontaneous lines” is meant to suppress the deconstructive nature of the consciousness, to be approached differently as when we would of a situation or challenge.
