About me

I have always had a weird relationship with art. It is something I can’t really get hold of and yet I cannot live without. Something always in the making. As if I was in search of what is unkown to me. Like trying to find my way out in the dark.

People will find this very strange, because the product of my work is mostly very colorful. But the process is a very difficult one, and many times I have the feeling of navigating with no compass to guide the way, through many layers of painting, changing forms and colors.

I graduated in architecture in Rio de Janeiro and have been for the last twenty years, always involved with urban themes. Cities are my inspiration. City spaces, physical and psychological, rendered into abstractions.

I try to use my architectural vocabulary to express and represent spaces and places. On my canvas I draw maps, grids, patterns, abstract forms that tell stories about people and places. Public and private spaces and also virtual places. Pulse and life.

I started off with small sized watercolours; experimenting on the density and variety of brushstrokes; exploring the wet in wet effects, then I moved on to work with large scale canvas and acrylic colors, to achieve the same effects as in watercolour. Now my works have not the same transparency, because they are built with so many layers, as I continue in search of meaning, way back and way forth, trying to hide and again to unveal what is real in me.