About
Filipino art, direct from the artists
Obramaestra is a marketplace for one-of-a-kind original artwork — built so a Filipino artist can sell straight to a collector, and a collector can buy with their money actually protected until the piece is in hand.
14/100
Founding Artist spots claimed
99
Original artworks listed
15%
Flat commission, every plan
0
Prints or editions sold
Obramaestra at a glance
- Obramaestra sells originals only. Every listing is one of one, with no prints or editions.
- Artists sell directly to collectors, and prices are in Philippine pesos.
- Checkout accepts QR Ph (Philippine bank and e-wallet apps, including GCash), GrabPay, Maya and ShopeePay.
- Payment is held in escrow. It is released to the artist when the collector confirms the work arrived, or 14 days after the artist ships it.
- A collector can request a refund any time before escrow releases if the work does not arrive, arrives damaged or is not as described. There are no change-of-mind returns.
- Artists keep 85% of each sale. Obramaestra takes a flat 15% commission on every plan.
- Artists package and ship their own work through Philippine couriers such as J&T Express, JRS Express, LBC Express, Ninja Van and 2GO Express. The shipping fee is calculated at checkout and shown before payment.
- Obramaestra was founded in 2025 by Paul Daveril Dabuco and is operated by DAVERIL DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES OPC.
Why we started this
A huge amount of genuinely good work by Filipino artists never reaches a collector who'd actually buy it — not because the work isn't good enough, but because the path from studio to buyer usually runs through a gallery, a consignment fee, and months of waiting. Meanwhile, most online marketplaces built for "art" are really built for prints — high-volume, low-friction, and largely indifferent to whether the thing you're buying is the one an artist's hand actually touched.
Obramaestra started in 2025 as a bet that both of those problems have the same fix: a marketplace that only carries originals, sells them directly from the artist, and protects the collector's payment well enough that "I've never held this piece and I'm buying it from a stranger online" stops being the scary part of the transaction.
We're still early, with a Founding 100 program for the first artists building the gallery with us. That's deliberate: it's easier to get the fundamentals right — escrow, fair commission, honest listings — with a hundred artists giving direct feedback than to scale a version we'd have to walk back later.
What we actually mean by "protected"
Four things that are true of every listing on Obramaestra, not just a promise on this page.
Originals only
No prints, no editions, no "limited run" toggle. Every listing is the one physical piece the artist made — once it sells, it's gone for good.
Escrow, not a promise
Payment sits in escrow from checkout until you confirm the piece arrived. Neither side has to just trust the other.
85% to the artist
A flat 15% commission on every plan, and shipping isn't split. The rest — pricing, story, presentation — stays the artist's own.
Built in the open
What we're building next isn't a secret roadmap slide — it's a public board artists and collectors can see, and vote on.
Built with Filipino artists, not just for them
Every feature we've shipped so far came from what Founding Artists actually asked for. See what's live, what's next, and vote on what we build after that.
See the roadmapCome see the work
Browse original pieces from Founding Artists, or apply to list your own.