“Marilyn Monroe II”, 2006 Collage

| Sofia Cravo in Lisbon, Portugal (1983) . Currently living and working in Leiria as Visual Artist, Art Teacher and Visual Merchandiser (Decoration). Graduated in Fine Art, with a Bacherol Honours Degree in Painting at Faculty of Fine Art, University of Lisbon, Portugal (2007). Holds a Masters MA Fine Art at Birmingham City University, England (2009). Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Arts Education, University of Aveiro (2012). Recently specialized in Art Therapy, by the European University Miguel de Cervantes (2021)| Complementary formation: Art Therapy, Jewellery, Decoration, Graphic Design, Photography.| - Since 2010 exhibits at Salon du Louvre, in Paris. - Frequently participates in National and International exhibitions. Work represented in several National and International Collections. | ABOUT MY WORK My practice incorporates notions of identity and the self as creative source, appearing as a form of memoir and subjective experience. The vision of myself and my work is covered with many layers of misty images, capturing absence and presence of my body and mind, things are partially or mostly veiled and camouflaged by a skin or a mask. I collate a reservoir of symbolic references. A tactile space dominates, aiming past languages and past stories. The pieces have parallel versions of stories and histories petrified and perpetuated as emblems and symbols, that move through different timelines, I and the "other side of the mirror". | (under construction)