Iam a Portuguese born artist from Lisbon, and my artwork is represented and collected internationally. I work with oils, mixed-media paintings, drawings and art photography. Now I’m beginning with experimental video and sculpture.
My exposure to numerous foreign cultures, religions and art forms has helped me with a personal artistic perspective. My artwork is mostly intuitive marked by innovation and experimentation.
Starting with an empty canvas or in my digital darkroom, the imagery, passion and emotion in each work come about spontaneously and unconsciously. I almost never plan my artwork because in the end my creations always become something quite different.
When working with photography and shooting a scene, I’m not trying to capture a truthful depiction of reality but compose images that evoke certain moods and feelings.
I enjoy creating artwork with an enigmatic and decayed look.
The interpretation of each image is left to the individual viewer’s personal vision, imagination and emotions.
I have been inspired by artists such as: Antonio Tapies, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso’s famous Guernica, Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, Franz Kline, Georg Baselitz, Jean Paul Basquiat, Hans Hoffman, Roy Lichtenstein, Mimmo Paladino, Frank Stella, Jeff Koons, Henri Moore, Jackson Pollock, Gerhard Richter, Karel Appel, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol, Marcel Duchamp, John Baldessari, Francis Bacon, David Hockney, Christo, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer, Cy Twombly, Willem De Kooning, Arnulf Rainier, Wassily Kadinsky, Paul Klee, and Jasper Johns amongst many other wonderful artists.
