Fortunato Garcia

Portuguese self-taught visual artist working across painting, collage, and photography.

His practice is built around the transformation of original digital imagery into layered mixed-media works on canvas. Starting from his own photographic and digital compositions, he constructs surfaces using collage with watercolor paper and traditional handmade Chinese paper. These images are then physically transformed through controlled processes involving water, alcohol, and fire, producing unpredictable textures, distortions, and organic marks. Metallic leaf is often incorporated to introduce contrast, depth, and shifting reflections.

With a BSc in Mathematics, Fortunato Garcia brings an analytical sensitivity to structure, balance, and process, which contrasts with the intentional unpredictability of his material interventions. His work explores the tension between order and chance, permanence and transformation, often focusing on the human figure and the animal world as central motifs.

Although self-taught, his works are held in private collections across Portugal, France, Italy, and the Netherlands. Each piece is conceived as a unique material event, where digital creation and physical transformation merge into a singular visual langu...

BSc in Mathematics