Larger paintings on canvas, with matte acrylics (which I overbuy, to my wallet’s pain) and some line-work. These works are more layered but still playful and intuitive. They often start from a sketch or an idea that wouldn’t leave me alone.
I use bold, bright colours: lots of pinks, greens and blues. There’s joy in them, often sunshine and sea. But underneath, there’s usually a deeper feeling: longing, contrast, memory. Much like Brazil itself, beauty and struggle in the same breath. Stylistically, people have called it figurative, expressive minimalism, post-impressionism, abstract pop filled with architectural line-work. I’m open to these readings, though labels aren’t central to how I work. I never got trained in art.
The paintings move through bodies, structures, and spaces, hinting at stories without settling on a single truth. What remains most important to me are simple sensations: light, line, colour, and the presence of sun.
