Rough please!
Clay, sand and plaster, sometimes bookpaper, form the foundation of my abstract art. With scrapers, sponges and sandpaper, I shape texture into expression. I use acrylic paint to breathe life into structure. Color is essential - yet I'm drawn to tones that whisper rather than shout. Muted, understated hues allow texture to speak, with a deep orange touched by black untertones as a recurring favorite. When I work with natural materials like shells, as in my "da praia" series, the palette softens even further, remaining quiet, restained and close to nature. Come closer, pinch to zoom.
Series "da praia". Shells, sand, clay, baking soda, plastic trash, acrylic paint. Seashells are commonly associated with ornament and decoration. These works seeks to question that perception through reduction and graphic order. Collected along the shores of the Eastern Algarve, the shells are arranged into minimalist composition that shifts them away from their decorative context into a more visual language. Alongside them, plastic found on the beach is incorporated, with its strange and unsetting aesthetic, introducing a second layer of material reality and tension.
Series "Saltpans", plaster, salt, baking soda, fabric, paper, acrylic paint: Referencing the salt fields of Portugal's southern coast, this body of work engages with salt as a material and visual phenomenon. It's coarse texture and the gradual transformation of color - formed through alges and the movement and evaporation of seawater - become central elements. Structure, arrangment and color are used to articulate these progress in a reduced, abstract language.
Series "future", sand, clay, pigments, acrylic paint: Against a backdrop of global uncertainty, this series reflects on the instability of the future. People, blurred and on the verge of disappearance, move in isolation yet together - directed not towards a destination or horizon, but towards an indeterminate void. The surface is deliberatly raw: marks and scratches, worked through furniture polish, remain exposed as material evidence of the vulnerability.
Cats are my fun object,my mood booster, my muses. From time to time I simply have to paint them.