Untitled Painting

Joana Vinagre was born in 1983, in Porto. She is a visual artist who is almost entirely a self-taught creative and currently she lives and works in Braga. Joana didn´t follow the traditional channel of academic art training, so her knowledge of art is from the study of books, nature, personal photographs and of other artists’ works. She likes to work with different subject matter and to experience various media so that she can work her skills to the fullest. For being involved in different environments of various energies and dynamism and surroundings made up of different organic and geometric shapes, lines, color palettes, it is not possible to express herself in just one way and that´s way her artistic work is not defined by just one style of art. For her, work is an experimentation, which she hopes it goes in the direction of a continuous evolution in the study of shape, line, colour, composition and balance. While observing her works you will find artistic works of abstract and modern style, as well as illustrations and paintings in folk art style based in the popular portuguese culture. For Joana Vinagre colour is an instrument that aims to awaken our emotions.