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Art Residency in Venice at the Escuola Internazionale di Grafica

December 12, 2024

I had the privilege to spend 3 weeks in a printing residency at the Escuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice in April 2023. I worked daily and sometimes weekends to learn new techniques like photolithography which I fell in love with. I also learned to use non toxic materials and had lots of guidance throughout….

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Open House / Art Exhibition / Nov 27,28

December 31, 2021

I had the pleasure of sharing our home with 5 other artists for a weekend Open House.  Please have a look at the images below and my artist statement. My recent work focuses on the subject of abandoned buildings in Portugal.   There is plenty of mystery and history in the decaying architecture. The textures, colours…

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Trespassing 2021

September 13, 2021

This is a compilation of stills, videos and mixed media artworks I have made inspired by abandoned buildings in Portugal where I live.

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Exhibition ‘The Art of Lockdown’

July 12, 2021

This exhibition came about when 2  friends and I decided to exhibit work that we had been doing during lockdown. In my case it was about drawing and sketching in the Serra de Sintra where I live the result of which became a book entitled ‘Watercolours from a Lockdown / Aguarelas de um Confinamento’.  …

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New Book: Watercolours from a Lockdown

November 22, 2020

About the Book This is a book of watercolours I made during Lockdown inspired by the Serra de Sintra where I live in Portugal. It is a World Heritage Site and as an artist I found great stimulation and release in walking every day into the Serra with my dog to make a sketch. I…

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Layers and Transparencies

August 9, 2020

A documentary of my recent artworks where I show the development of some of my mixed media artworks into digital transparent layered pieces using uv inkjet printing on perspex. 

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