I was born in Portugal, in Gavio, in Alentejo, in some moment between 2World war and Gulf War. I have 3 sons. To the 4 years I left for Mozambique with my family. In Mozambique I grew and I was formed as artist and person, in a world where the suffering was and is present, but that it is full with coloring, forms, textures and fantastic lights. I progressively fell in love with those forms, colors and lights that opened up before my in all their fullness and force.In Chile I rediscover the regenerator force of the ceramic and the sculpture like expression way. To model my pieces reminds me the years of the childhood, the freedom of to enjoy the nature and to become unified with her, without barriers, without fears, with full trust. As master the Earth makes myself mud. I don't belong to this geographical place but uniting to the mud, I offer roots to be able to feel at home.Citizen of the world reaffirms my deep conviction in the Universality. To the pain, to the suffering, to the solitude, to the saudade and the sadness I respond with my Women, all them alone, with big and sad eyes plenty of pain, but protected by an universe in forms, lights, colors, textures and symbols. About my artwork In me there is also the spirit of the navigators and Portuguese adventurers. Everything begins with the trip imposed starting from the old world, of Portugal to the Discovered ones and to the colonies of Mozambique, in frica, full with black ethnoses and of a splendid coloring. The distance between my made sleepy origins and that sudden awakening doesn't drain the endless question: Who am I ? experience this fabulous latitude mixing it with other lives, with other pains, with the purity of the color and the plot of mosaics to the one that they call Mestizo. I built Attitudes starting from my Latitudes. In these Latitudes I looked for the seeds of wild light that populate my paintings and ceramics. In these Latitudes I found the mestizos that inhabit my works . My Latitudes and Attitudes and the mixture of Pain and Color with which I confronted myself during this course of life, they determine my search of the Art inside the Human being, concretely inside the Being's Woman Universe. What I capture is, therefore, a trip inside of the spirit... to those "doors and windows of the soul", feminine territories of connection with the Life and the Divinity. In these Latitudes, with my Attitudes and by means of the continuous Art looking for the Being's Woman experiences … Read More