Graça Paz

My painting began in the sweetest memory of my childhood of seeing my father always in love with music. He worked with classical music all his life and had a vinyl shop were I went to help him many times, and I remember the days when he came home late and closed himself to his zen moment and flooded our beds with Chopin, Bach and Ravel.

When I started painting, first figurative, my search was always on abstracts, like a first love,
so It all made sense when a kind of bridge built itself in the perfect timimming, between my work and music and the power of abstraction as a unique and individual inner sound..

When I was ready and had the courage to start painting abstract, I immediately perceived the intellectual demand that my choice brought me. There was behind the chosen forms a deep sense of being.

That was when Bach came and gave meaning to my work. He brought me back the memories of my father's music, and that was the leap to interpret my favorite compositions on canvas like a golden hand that was given to me by fate, as in a dialogue between me and the composer or interpreter. It has become an exchange of emotions and the beginning of a long road leading me to the light in all themes that my interior need to provide, w...

I first studied fashion design, followed by an Arts Course in Oporto, Portugal.

Who? What? Why? at SBN gallery Oporto March and April 2019

"Others and me" individual exhibition in Muuda july 2010



"Beach scenes" Watercolor exhibition in Muuda gallery Oporto, Portugal. October 2014


"What if I fall...Oh my darling, what if you fly?" Supercosy gallery in Oporto, Portugal November 2014



"Watercolor in Camélias season"
Centro de Memória in Vila do Conde February 2015