About

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.