Ana’s History
Ana’s History
Ana started to paint at the age of 8 as a way of occupying her free time after school. Plastic/Visual arts have quickly developed into a huge passion and become a significant part of her life ever since. Combining studio artwork with academic training, sports, family, and work, it has been through painting, the use of color and drawing, that she has found her very own way of conveying a message to those who (view and) observe her works. That is how Ana likes to express her experiences and moments to the world around her: she invites us to follow her on a unique journey, where each one of us can walk along the same tracks and yet create our own story. The techniques she uses most are oil on canvas as well as drawing with Chinese ink on paper. Yet, other media, such as pastel, acrylic and spray are also part of her portfolio. Her participation in individual and collective exhibitions, be it in Portugal or abroad, has allowed her work to become more widely spread and recognized. Her artwork has been displayed in several collections inside and outside the country. Ana has a degree in Conservation and Restoration from the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, with most of her time being dedicated to conservation and restoration of Mural Paintings. Further on, she holds a Master’s degree in Museography and Museology from the Faculty of Fine Arts of Lisbon. It has been a journey of more than 20 years filled with love for drawing and for painting.
Artwork
At other times we encounter objects in suspension which, just as the artist herself or we may find ourselves hanging in there and expecting something to happen. There are moments we so tightly hold on to in the hope of preventing time from taking us with it. Recently, color has become an accessory; one discovers drawings that display fractions of mind wanderings and of forgotten or bygone places which in turn have become the protagonists of mute black and white stories; stories that speak volumes about those places empty of people. “Non-places of non-people” painted with the same candor as all other artworks in the very beginning of Ana’s art career.
Artwork
Over time Ana has discovered many techniques that unveil her wish for evasion, or her desire for inventing or revealing a universe of her own, if you will- where birds live and where trees bloom to show us other worlds. Such could be the painting of an imaginative flower, for instance.
At other times we encounter objects in suspension which, just as the artist herself or we may find ourselves hanging in there and expecting something to happen. There are moments we so tightly hold on to in the hope of preventing time from taking us with it. Recently, color has become an accessory; one discovers drawings that display fractions of mind wanderings and of forgotten or bygone places which in turn have become the protagonists of mute black and white stories; stories that speak volumes about those places empty of people. “Non-places of non-people” painted with the same candor as all other artworks in the very beginning of Ana’s art career.
Artist Journey
THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITIONS ARE HIGHLIGHTED
- Entre Paragens – Individual exhibition, Viana do Castelo;
- Llhetes Art – Collective Exhibition, Ponte de Lima;
- RED me between the lines – Individual exhibition, BAAG; Convergences – Group Exhibition – BAAG, Lisbon (2017);
- Arte Nostra Damus 17, Viseu and Amadora (2017);
- New Artists – Exhibition and auction – Cabral Moncada Leilões, Lisbon (2017);
- Surrealism in the suburbs of Lisbon – Group exhibition of the international surrealist movement – Via Aurea Art Gallery, Sesimbra (2017);
- URBAN ART in MUPIS – AMIarte, Lisbon (2017);
- ARTIS 2017 – XV Festival de Artes de Seia – Group Exhibition (2017);
- Miragens – ISCTE Library, Lisbon – Individual exhibition (2017);
- Damned VIII – Group Exhibition – Detroit, USA (2015);
- IV Hall of Drawing, Estremoz (2015); Galerie Monod – Paris, France – Individual exhibition (2014);
- Exposition Internationale 2013 – Group Exhibition, Paris (2013);
- Drawing Triennale, Matosinhos (2012);
- Artshow – FIL Lisboa – Plastic Arts and Decorative Arts Fair (2011);
- 40th Salon Concours International – Group Exhibition, Gembleux, Belgium (2010);
- Art with Poetry III – Exhibition Collective – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (2009);
- 39th Salon Concours International – Group
- Exhibition, Belgium (2009);
- Donna…ta sacred and profane – Collective Exhibition, Galeria Civica Enna, Sicily (Italy) (2009);
- Inter Pares – Collective Exhibition – Casa de Goa, Lisbon (2008);
- Pena Suspensa 18 years 18 paintings – SIMECQ –
- Individual exhibition (2007);
- Paço de Arcos Biennials (2010), Avante (2017) and Vidigueira (2016, 2012, 2010) and Carcavelos (2012).
- Illustration of book covers and wine labels (limited editions).
academic education
2018
2008/11
2005/08
Artist
Journey
Ana has participated in exhibitions since 1998 and displayed her work in about one hundred collective and a dozen of individual exhibitions in Portugal, Belgium, Brazil, the United States, in France and in Italy. Among the exhibited works some earned awards and are now represented in private collections in Portugal and abroad. The main exhibitions were:
THE FOLLOWING EXHIBITIONS ARE HIGHLIGHTED
- Entre Paragens – Individual exhibition, Viana do Castelo;
- Llhetes Art – Collective Exhibition, Ponte de Lima;
- RED me between the lines – Individual exhibition, BAAG; Convergences – Group Exhibition – BAAG, Lisbon (2017);
- Arte Nostra Damus 17, Viseu and Amadora (2017);
- New Artists – Exhibition and auction – Cabral Moncada Leilões, Lisbon (2017);
- Surrealism in the suburbs of Lisbon – Group exhibition of the international surrealist movement – Via Aurea Art Gallery, Sesimbra (2017);
- URBAN ART in MUPIS – AMIarte, Lisbon (2017);
- ARTIS 2017 – XV Festival de Artes de Seia – Group Exhibition (2017);
- Miragens – ISCTE Library, Lisbon – Individual exhibition (2017);
- Damned VIII – Group Exhibition – Detroit, USA (2015);
- IV Hall of Drawing, Estremoz (2015); Galerie Monod – Paris, France – Individual exhibition (2014);
- Exposition Internationale 2013 – Group Exhibition, Paris (2013);
- Drawing Triennale, Matosinhos (2012);
- Artshow – FIL Lisboa – Plastic Arts and Decorative Arts Fair (2011);
- 40th Salon Concours International – Group Exhibition, Gembleux, Belgium (2010);
- Art with Poetry III – Exhibition Collective – Rio de Janeiro – Brazil (2009);
- 39th Salon Concours International – Group
- Exhibition, Belgium (2009);
- Donna…ta sacred and profane – Collective Exhibition, Galeria Civica Enna, Sicily (Italy) (2009);
- Inter Pares – Collective Exhibition – Casa de Goa, Lisbon (2008);
- Pena Suspensa 18 years 18 paintings – SIMECQ –
- Individual exhibition (2007);
- Paço de Arcos Biennials (2010), Avante (2017) and Vidigueira (2016, 2012, 2010) and Carcavelos (2012).
- Illustration of book covers and wine labels (limited editions).
academic education
2018
Master in Museology and Museography by the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon.
2008/11
Degree in Conservation and Restoration by the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar and
2005/08
Professional Course in Conservation and Restoration with specialization in Mural Painting at the Professional School for the Recovery of Heritage of Sintra
