I am a self-taught artist born in Volta Redonda, RJ, Brazil. I moved to Washington, DC in 1995 and began painting in 1998. I have shown my work throughout the years in various galleries and other venues in and around DC, VA, and Florida.
I moved to Oakland Park, FL in 2016, where I currently reside.
During the pandemic, as staying home was a priority, I turned to gardening, spending my time watching the painted buntings, parrots, hummingbirds, and other unique and fascinating birds and other fauna that would visit my favorite garden trees, the Plumerias.
My latest work reflects my new passion for nature, which allowed me to create a series of paintings using, in the beginning, the discarded blue tape I had from my previous geometric work. I had many pieces of tape left from the hardline geometric works that I had painted in different colors, and pasted on a glass wall in my studio. I decided to cut the tapes out into shapes and paste them into vellum paper, creating a variety of patterns and schemes.
My latest collages pay homage to the seasons and scenery up north, a memory also treasured from my past when I lived in DC, using various hues and falling leaves, budding branches, iconic monuments, surrounded by tweeting birds.
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