Portuguese Illustration Exhibition – at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (Portugal)
2023
Portuguese Illustration Exhibition – at Centro Cultural Vila Flor, Guimarães (Portugal)
Category: Exhibition – Artist Residency
-
BIG Guimarães
BIG Catalog – 4th Illustration Bienal of Guimarães (cover by Sebastião Peixoto) -
Paradise Found
Casa do Jardim da Estrela
Project created during the Artist Residency ‘Paradise Found 2021’ | Imagerie – Casa das Imagens
Paradise Found” is a project that aims to reflect on the sustainability of contemporary artistic practices, especially photography, through the plastic exploration of urban green spaces. With this project, we intend to create a visual work that reflects on these aspects while exploring forms of photographic creation focused on sustainability and based on numerous experimental and alternative photographic printing and capture processes, some of which use the photosensitive properties of own plants, also exploring issues such as the manipulation of matter and the permanence of the image. – Imagerie, 2021
“Paradise Found” é um projeto que pretende refletir sobre a sustentabilidade das práticas artísticas contemporâneas, especialmente da fotografia, através da exploração plástica dos espaços verdes urbanos. Com este projeto pretende-se criar uma obra visual que reflita sobre estes aspetos ao mesmo tempo que se exploram formas de criação fotográfica focadas na sustentabilidade e baseadas em inúmeros processos de impressão e captação fotográficos experimentais e alternativos, alguns dos quais recorrem às propriedades fotossensíveis das próprias plantas, explorando-se também questões como a manipulação da matéria e a permanência da imagem. – Imagerie, 2021
Collective Exhibition: Ana Caetano, Ana Filipa Correia, Atelier Alberto (Hugo RC e Maria Lopes), José Domingos, Magda Fernandes, Mariana Hartenthal, Rita Faia, Sara Rocio, Sérgio Braz d’Almeida e Vera Gonçalves
Plum Anthotype, 2021 
Spirulina Anthotype on handmade paper with basil/chives seeds, 2024
Ditados Portugueses -
Ellas Illustran Botánica
Green Open Gallery | Exhibition in El Real Jardín Botánico, Madrid
Green Open Gallery showcases the excellence of contemporary botanical illustration by 21st-century artists. The illustrations in this gallery were submitted in response to an open call, disseminated through social media and in collaboration with prestigious botanical illustrators’ societies, such as the Korea Botanical Arts Cooperative and the Society of Botanical Artists.
Omphalodes kusinskyanae | Miosótis-das-Praias SELECTED WORK
Rita Faia, Omphalodes kusinskyanae, 2021
Colored pencils and acrylic paint on polyester paper, 29,7x42cmOmphalodes kusinskyanae it’s a small wild flower from the family of Boraginaceae. Omphalodes means ‘belly button’ in latin, which refers to the shape of the fruit. It’s endemic to Portugal and today only a few specimens can be found in the coastal areas between Cascais and Ericeira. For this reason it is a species in critical danger of extinction. The rise of pollution, the climate changes and the resulting changes in soils are some of the reasons for the decreasing population of this plant. Given the little information available about it this is my contribution so that it is not forgotten.
Miosótis-das-Praias (Omphalodes kusinskyanae) é uma pequena flor silvestre da família das Boraginaceae. Omphalodes significa ‘umbigo’ em latim, o que se refere à forma do fruto. É endémica de Portugal e hoje apenas alguns espécimes podem ser encontrados nas áreas costeiras entre Cascais e a Ericeira. Por este motivo é uma espécie em critico perigo de extinção. O aumento da poluição, as mudanças climáticas e as consequentes mudanças no solo são algumas das razões que levam ao decréscimo da população desta espécie. Dada a pouca informação disponível este é o meu contributo para que a planta não seja esquecida.
-
Contos Geresianos
Artist Residency and Exhibition
Illustration Artist Residency ‘Aldeias Criativas’, 2023
Campo do Gerês (Portugal)
Promoted by Associação Rural Vivo
Project supported by Direção Geral das ArtesIn January I did a one month residency in Campo do Gerês, a village in the heart of the Peneda-Gerês National Park. The project was focused on the creation of a series of illustrations that visually portrayed the popular tales and stories that were the subject of an ethnographic collection by the writer Júlio Gomes during 2022, tales of the Geresiano imaginary that still persist in the memory of some people in this village.
During the residency I did 2 workshops, one for the children of the Learning Community ‘Germinar’ and the other for adults – an introduction to nature drawing.
In February the work created during the residency was presented in the village at Museu da Geira.2023 Museu da Geira, em Campo do Gerês (Terras de Bouro)
2025 Ciclo de Exposições Itinerantes / Taberna do Caskais, em Pitões das Júnias (Montalegre)
-
Paradise Found’21
Artist Residency Paradise Found’21 | Imagerie – Casa das Imagens
Paradise Found” is a project that aims to reflect on the sustainability of contemporary artistic practices, especially photography, through the plastic exploration of urban green spaces. With this project, we intend to create a visual work that reflects on these aspects while exploring forms of photographic creation focused on sustainability and based on numerous experimental and alternative photographic printing and capture processes, some of which use the photosensitive properties of own plants, also exploring issues such as the manipulation of matter and the permanence of the image. – Imagerie 2021
“Paradise Found” é um projeto que pretende refletir sobre a sustentabilidade das práticas artísticas contemporâneas, especialmente da fotografia, através da exploração plástica dos espaços verdes urbanos. Com este projeto pretende-se criar uma obra visual que reflita sobre estes aspetos ao mesmo tempo que se exploram formas de criação fotográfica focadas na sustentabilidade e baseadas em inúmeros processos de impressão e captação fotográficos experimentais e alternativos, alguns dos quais recorrem às propriedades fotossensíveis das próprias plantas, explorando-se também questões como a manipulação da matéria e a permanência da imagem. – Imagerie
Exhibition at 5D Creative Hub (Marvila – Portugal)
27 Nov – 11 Dec 2021
Eucalyptus Anthotype 
Galho Notebook with photographic experiments and writings about the project 
Chlorella Anthotype on handmade paper 
Plum Anthotype 
Frames and boxes made from recycled wood by project Depois, (creation of decorative and artistic pieces from waste).
Eucalyptus leaves, flowers and fruits caught in my chosen urban green space: Jardim do Campo Grande (Lisboa, Portugal)
Cyanotype developed with water, sodium carbonate and coffee,
on bamboo paper, 26×36.4 cm
Harvested flower, lost fruit. 
From good seed, good fruit. 
Trees and lovers, as long as they have roots, will have fruits and flowers Portuguese Sayings printed by the sun through a Chlorella (algae) Anthotype.
The paper is handmade, recycled and mixed with basil and/or chives seeds.
The water discarded in the process of making paper was later used to water my plants.
Cyanotypes of natural organic matter (branches, leaves and roots) -
Lisbon Map of Historic Shops
Mural for the Photography Exhibition ‘Lojas com História’ by David Cachopo
Photos by Bárbara Monteiro 
Work in Progress – Map Projection 
Lisbon Map painted with acrylic on the wall of Central Gerador – Lumiar (Portugal), 2019 
