"Once I conceive an idea for a painting, I arrange the objects and then use the camera to produce the strongest photographic example of my original idea. Then I paint the photographic image. Superficially, I appear to copy the photograph, but I make many adjustments to the photographic image as I complete the painting. I try to impose my own vision by subtle adjustment of colours, edges and details so that the finished painting is the strongest representation of the original idea." - Cesar Santander

Selected Public Collections

Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario
Art Gallery of St. Thomas/Elgin, St. Thomas, Ontario
Burdines Department Stores, Miami
CFPL T.V., London, Ontario
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York
Clarkson-Gordon Collection, Toronto
Connor, Clark, Toronto
F.H. Deacon Hodgson, Toronto
Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina
Kitchener/Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Ontario
London Free Press, London, Ontario
London Life Insurance Company, London, Ontario
Mariposa Communications, Toronto, Ontario
Northern Life Insurance Corporation, London, Ontario
Richmond Art Gallery, Richmond, British Columbia
Sifton Properties Limited, London, Ontario
University Hospital, London, Ontario
Victoria Hospital, London, Ontatio
Walt Disney Company, Pasadena
Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock, Ontario
Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey