Embracing the Elements
Born in Portugal, a country with an impressive coastline and a historical connection with the sea, it has always been natural for me to find my greatest source of inspiration in the ocean.
(Image: cliffs by the sea, near the Portuguese town of Cascais - "Boca do Inferno")
My journey as an artist began with an innate desire to search for the essence of freedom. I always felt that art could offer me something more, an elemental and extraphysical attunement.
It was also in surfing that I found an activity that echoed feelings of liberation through a strong connection with the energy of the sea. The rhythmic force of the waves allows me to disconnect from everything else and embrace a cyclical essence of renewal. The endless ebb and flow of the power of the sea matches my devotion to making art and reconnecting with a greater dimension.
Drawing as a Gateway
Drawing serves as my anchor and the gateway to my creative universe. Through this medium, I imprint abstract marks and shapes that energetically expand and metamorphose across the series of my works. The residue of performative actions becomes a unique lexicon of symbols, blending intuition and subconscious elements.
Ancestral Dialogues
Spanning drawing, painting, performance and installation, my creations weave a narrative of drama and theatricality, harmoniously embracing the paradox of suspended time. Each work recovers the symbolic imprint of the body amidst ancestral echoes and spiritual liberation. Beyond mere artistic expression, my activity delves into anthropological methodologies, observing, documenting and reusing contemporary waste and collaborating on archaeological adventures.
This synthesis gives new life to found objects and industrial remains, infusing my visual records with a subtle, poetic resonance, emphasising an ancestral connection. Behind the scenes, the fundamental purity of the natural materials in my paintings or installations, such as wood, earth, rock fragments or natural pigments, create dialogues that develop and cross material culture and ecology, where techniques and gestures echo the effects of time and the transformation of matter.
(Image: Painting on the ground with the landscape of Castro de Ovil, a pre-Roman hillfort situated in the municipality of Espinho, Portugal, characterized by fortified villages with circular structures dating back to the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC.)