Hi! I am a brazilian painter currently based in Stockholm. I work mostly with oil on canvas, but also do studies in graphite, chalk and charcoal. I'm specially interested in portraits and landscapes and am paving my way into narrative paintings.

In my website you will be able to find all of my recent works and experimentations. Here you can find a bit about each work and you can always contact me if you're interested. If you like my work, I suggest you subscribe to my newsletter. I'll only use it to let you know when there's new content or if there's any upcoming exhibition.

I am also open to commissions, contact me by email to know more about it. You can find my email at the contact page.

I paint some different genres but my main focus is portrait painting right now. I will describe more my relationship with each genre and how they come together in my work in the next section.

Portrait

My first oil painting was a portrait, and it made me fall in love with painting. It was the portrait of my grandmother and it was very simple, as expected from a complete beginner. It captured something really important, the way my grandmother looked at me and her other loved ones. It brought a lot of joy for my family as it evoked warm feelings on all of us when seeing her typical look. It turned that look in her eyes into something we would have forever.

After completing that painting I knew oil painting would forever be in my life. The way it touched me and the way it made me feel still intrigues me and makes me want to keep painting portraits for others.

Going further down the line I kept studying and training to improve my technique and to find my style. I've managed to line up some commissions some of which made this path even more special, like the painting of Christian with baby Joshua in his arms.

I became proud to have become part of these peoples lives by helping to tell a bit of their stories through my art.

My story with portrait painting is marked by self portraits that in a way mark the evolution of my style and help me see myself reflected in it. Of which one my favorites is the blue self portrait, painted in the depths of winter in Stockholm.

In summary the portraits I paint are portals for a moment in a person's life story. They will transmit several things for the user: a specific moment in life that will be missed, a simple expression that we can relate to, it could be just a mood. It's something that ties people and moments together and helps us feel how we felt, or to relate to someone else's feeling or story.

Landscape

My interest for landscape painting was born out of my interest in composition. Once I realized the power of composition in portraits, I've started to look for it in landscape too. From my point of view, landscape painting is not just about a view from a place but it's more about the composition between the physical elements and dark and light values that will give it movement. This relation creates a mysterious interest in the viewer, a sense of harmony or contrast that just keeps us wanting to look at it to be able to absorb the scene.

In summary the composition matters to me above any detail. And that is carried over back to portraits when I decide to neglect details that would break the order I established for an artwork. Taking in the spatial relationship of objects and the light is important to me to develop further in what I want to work next, narrative paintings.