Nothing like sand dunes to express nature's impermanency and how moments slip away, nothing lasts, nothing is sure, little matters, little is known... while we remain almost motionless observing time pass... an instant follows the others into eternity ... Textural contrasting browns and blues form these contradictory planes in my memory of Northeastern Brazil ...

HOUSE OF SAND, PEOPLE OF CLAY

For over 2 yrs, I lived in a old school kind of guesthouse, those you can live for some time, I was waiting for somethings to happen, to have my own home, and I made several of these works on paper, painted the 2 different rooms I stayed at, different times of the day and varied emotions ...

(Private collection in Greece)

NIGHT AT THE INN

Bathers walk into the bath room ... into the light ...

Bathers is a painting or drawing with paint on paper, I love leaving parts of the paper exposed; my usual combinations of warm and cool colours.

(Private collection)

BATHERS

A real "cubist" bar inspired me to dig deeper into the ambiguity of space and mirror reflections, this work on paper is dear to my heart but it's also a study for a larger painting.

THE CUBIST BAR

SLEEPY IN THE TAVERN

(In the Tavern) Part of a series of works which follow a character through streets and taverns of old Porto, spaces converge, time stopped, time awaits ...

NA TASCA

Bohemian friends gather by a bonfire under an old bridge, the river, another character in the play, floats to another town ... another ritual ...

THE RIVER WAITS FOR YOU

I am in dialogue with my peers of my era and the ones who passed before, in an enduring beautiful tradition called painting. I blended elements of cubism, expressionism and outsider art to create this intimate ritualistic moment, instead of making the players monumental or scultpural, I placed more emphasis on the warm space, on the relationship between them, referencing the shifting world outside the tavern ...

CARD PLAYERS

Based on the photographs by the wonderful Artur Pastor, the subjective perception of time, the lull of the afternoon, women waiting for life to happen ... stare back at us in resigned eternal gestures.

NAZARÉ

This monochromatic piece in blues, uses the usual style synthesis of Proto-Cubism, Cubism and Expressionism, to express these women's journeys, sailors wives living a harsh life blown by the ocean's moods ...

WOMEN OF NAZARE

He spins the wheel of time as he sharpens the knifes on a circular stone propped on the bicycle, he announces his coming with a whistle calling the spring ...

THE TIME SPINNER

Conjuring a past which never passes, an existentialist nostalgia ...

(requires frame)

FADO SINGER

Using elements of proto-Cubism, Cubism, and Expressionism for a soulful cityscape rising up the hill to the city walls ...

ÓBIDOS

Studying the different lighting of the Alentejo, the warmth, the local themes and architecture ...

ALENTEJO ETERNAL

A personal work in an almost monochromatic composition in blues, with some contrasting browns and oranges, the shifting watered ground leads us the silhouette of a mother with children, one by hand, one on lap into the blinding morning light ... in al old ancient town somewhere in my imagination.

(This work is a private US family collection in Portugal)

ARCHES OF TIME

Arches in the medieval city of Óbidos... Down comes calmly... In complimentary colours of purples, yellows, with texture and shifting perspective, using synthesis of Cubism and Expressionism.

ARCHES (Arcos)

Not quite intentionally but also almost monochromatic work, A village somewhere in eternity where stories are told. Part of a public street art walk and upcycled materials project, UpinthAR!, 2nd Edition, in Matosinhos, PT. I accepted the challenges of trying to transfer my style and stories onto materials I had never worked on before, also, my debut with public arts. This piece still exists and it's possible to exhibit and collect.

SLUMBER

Using spontaneous strokes, no plans, sensing the beauty and history of the place I am, and what the drawing or painting asks for, in monochromatic tones of blue to lavenders, it's the same syncretism of styles Cubism & Expressionism, I follow the light.

MORNING

There's no past, present and future, it's all an illusion! Times evokes the ephemeral quality of life, our shifting perceptions, with a synthesis of Cubism & Expressionism. A monochromatic in reds composition rich in colours & tones which describes an old town in Portugal.

TIMES

CROSSINGS (Cruzamentos, in its birth place), is an almost monochromatic poetic depiction of the eternal and simultaneously ephemeral quality of life… I observes a place in transformation, a soulful place, candidly and without sentimentalism, but inevitably transmitting the essence of a moment, a locus that in a way, never was except in my imagination… it’s real in our perceptions, yet impossible … My style uses a synthesis of elements of Expressionism, Cubism & Outsider Art, but it’s always my unique pictorial identity, with narrative turning the material into visual Magical Realism.

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