Artist's StatementOne's work is a way of keeping a diary – said Picasso. The pictures reflect passing episodes. Lives and experiences expressed on canvas, with paints and brushes. My paintings can either refer to an episode that took place on a trip – a memory – or they can talk about food, or the cat that appeared on the roof. Or be simple ideas and concepts that pass in the moment. I usually use acrylic on the first layer, and oil on the following ones. Complement with oil pastel and oil stick. Sometimes I draw in pencil directly on the canvas, before starting to paint; other times I go directly to brush strokes, applying paint - on canvas or paper - with a brush, without any previous sketch. I rarely paint with spatulas. The painting is built with successive layers. Occasionally a first and only layer is enough. It's rare but it happens. During the paintings I can carry out abundant studies before moving on, before taking any decisive step, and I use the computer for planning. I don't always choose colours. Without looking, I pick up a tube of paint at random from inside the paint box. The colour that comes, is the one that will be used. But the colour that comes defines which point of the picture is painted. If it comes in blue, maybe it's the left corner. If it comes in yellow, maybe paint the top. Here is an intuitive process. All colours are beautiful, and they understand each other, it is the human eye that gives them more value or not. And there are a lot of human eyes. Additionally, I dedicate myself to writing and photography, in travel chronicles that can be seen on my website. Some of my paintings reveal episodes of these trips, trips that are normally made by bicycle, alone, in destinations in Africa, Asia, America, Australia and Europe. I am currently undertaking a Master's Degree in Painting, at Fine Arts Faculty of Lisbon University. List of Works01 - “Darkness” 2020 Acrylic on canvas 73 x 60 cm (29 x 24 inches) 02 - Christmas Cave, Lava Tube – Terceira island, Azores 2021 Oil on paper 29,7 x 40,7 cm (11,7 x 16 inches) plus the frame 03 – Pompons 2020 Acrylic on canvas 81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 inches) 04 - “I Will Not Have Flowers in my Grave. Because I Won't Have a Grave” 2020 Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas 70 x 100 cm (28 x 39 inches) 05 - “The Stream of the Subconscious” 2020 Acrylic and oil pastel on canvas 81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 inches) 06 - The Island 2020 Acrylic on canvas 81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 inches) 07 - The Island (II) 2020 Acrylic and oil on canvas 116 x 81 cm (46 x 32 inches) 08 - The Island (III) 2020 Oil on canvas 81 x 116 cm (32 x 46 inches) 09 - In the Forest of Principe Island 2020 Acrylic, oil and oil pastel on paper 29,7 x 40,7 cm (11,7 x 16 inches) plus the frame “The best of all is that I constantly hear the rustle of large animals around me. Well, a human can't be, he can't walk in this tangle of forest he or she would have to come down the road. I look in the direction of the rustling between the bushes and the trees, but I see nothing. What animals are these? Wild pigs? Goats? Monkeys? They are big! They make as much or more noise than me. These are not 10 cm geckos. They break branches in their passage and are fast. But here in Principe there is nothing to fear, there are no dangerous animals. A thousand little eyes are watching me, for sure. (...) I will reach the end of my journey! If the forest does not close completely, I will get there! Decidedly , no one has been here for years. The forest is becoming increasingly inhospitable. Its weight increases on me. It’s more and more closed, darker, more and more humid. Mosquitoes are voracious. And the wound stings my foot . But I want to continue, I am 100% determined to continue”. Chronicle 19 of Sao Tome and Principe: https://rutenorte.com/sao-tome-e-principe/550-km-de-bicicleta-sozinha-29-dias-019/ Google Translator" button in the upper right corner of website. 10 - Atauro Island II 2021 Acrylic, oil, wax, oil pastel and oil stick on unstretched canvas 91 x 126 cm (36 x 49,6 inches) This painting accompanies a travel chronicle I wrote: Chronicle 61 of East-Timor: “The Coral Triangle covers areas within six countries East Timor, Indonesia, the Philippines, Malaysia, Solomon Islands and Papua New Guinea. It is shaped like a triangle because scientists have identified that these are the limits that outline the epicenter of marine biodiversity on Planet Earth. (...) It’s here that there is the greatest diversity of corals in the world (...). The dive lasted 56 minutes, and we went down to 57 feet deep. We did about 1300 feet horizontally . There aren’t words to describe what I saw. I saw a colorful world, full of colorful fish. 80 degrees water”. RUNA
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