"Sustento" (Sustenance) Painting

Born in Cape Verde Islands on May 26th 1989, I started to paint in the year 2013 after I got back from Madrid where I studied and lived for 5 years, and graduated in both Law and Journalism. Painting became part of my life as a way of therapy to heal and deal with depression, but it immediately became my passion and reason to live. The very first moment I applied paint on canvas, I found my mission in this lifetime and an immense desire to pursue an Art Career professionally was born. Completely self-taught and intuitive, my paintings have a strong ethereal vibe, where spirituality overlap the purely physical and figurative elements. Drawn to dark and mysterious colors, my paintings portray a sense of depth and secrecy which is tangibly emotional, and gives rise to a peculiar and unmistakable artistic style. Strongly Inspired by the work of Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet and Joaquim Sorolla, my paintings have main focus on women and their representation, ponds and flowers, a strong presence of golden tones, impressionistic brushwork, a very defined identity and embedded with symbolism in each detail. Each painting process is a meditation session. Each canvas tells a story close to my heart. With each brushstroke I shares a bit of my soul.