Manuela Ferreira

Manuela Ferreira started drawing and painting at a young age when she attended a Fine Arts preparatory school. As she grew, her work became a more personal quest through drawing and etching, whilst continuing to paint with gouache and water colours.

When she moved to live in the South of France, colour became the principal focus of her work. For several years she painted on silk, and the delicacy and almost infinite range of the tones obtained with this technique made her even more aware of the vital universe of colour. This universe then became central to her work.

Later, her painting became more classical, using tempera on paint supports such as paper and medium density fibreboard (MDF).

Manuela endeavours to share exactly what the act of painting means to her personally. She chooses landscape as a metaphor of the meditation that underpins her artistic activity; in other words, for her, painting is a form of meditation and landscape its support.

Each painting is a mental landscape composed of stereotypes: the sea, mountains, lakes, rocks, trees. Shapes are simple, almost naive. Everything is imagined, nothing in nature looks like this, it is painting «on a flat surface covered with colours assembled in a certain order». (Mau...

École des beaux arts (M.O.C.O) Montpellier FRANCE

Manuela Ferreira
Vit et travaille à Sauteyrargues (Hérault) Etudes aux Beaux Arts de Montpellier
EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
2025 - « Vu d’oiseau » - Le MéliMélo - Montpellier
2024 - « Le réel de la peinture » - Eglise St Hippolyte - Loupian (34) 2024 - « Une émotion intérieure » - Pavillon des Arts - Port Vendres (P.O) 2023 - « Une juste solitude » - La Galerie du Placard - Toulouse
2021 - "Manuela Ferreira & Yves Caro" - LA V.R.A.C. - Millau
2003 - "Pierres de jardin" - Domaine des Clos - Beaucaire, Gard
1992 - Galerie Iconoscope - Montpellier
1994 - "Habituellement je travaille" - Cac Aldébaran - Baillargues, Hérault
EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
2024 - « La nuit » - Galerie fabrique Contemporaine - Paris
2021 - "Manuela Ferreira & Yves Caro" - LA V.R.A.C. - Millau
1997 - "Images de la nature" - Vallon du Villaret, Lozère - avec J.M.Petit 1996 - Galerie espace Diogène - Pézénas, Hérault - avec Salvador Moreno 1993 - "Tronc" - Galerie Iconoscope, Montpellier
1993 - Château de Montaigut - Gissac, Aveyron
1992 - "Galatée" - Musée des moulages - Université P.Valéry, Montpellier
VIDEOS DE YVES CARO & MANUELA FERREIRA
2016 - « FÉLICITÉ »
2010 - « CHARLES ET RENÉ » (interlude). La V.R.A.C. Millau 2009 - « AQUA ALTA » "Oh quel beau d...