Jay Rome "Bricky" Orfalas resides in Amontay, Pitogo, Quezon Province. He is a 40-year-old self-taught tattoo artist, a portrait artist, and a painter since 2017. He started practicing his art skills when he was working for a construction company in Mindanao in 2017. But he quit his job in 2019 because of the pandemic, and since then he has started focusing on his art to continue to enhance his skills and to provide for his family's needs.