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EDUCATIONAL / PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND

Instituto Jean Piaget - Portugal. Pedagogigal Materials, Equipment Design and Production, Industrial Design, Graphic Design.

Halmstad University - Sweden. Nordic Center for Research on Toys and educational Media.

Co-founder of HomoLudens Design, Lisbon: graphic, industrial and educational materials design. Design projects involving special equipment for children with brain paralisys, for the blind and children with ambliopy. Projects including urban design, architectural, interiors, packaging, information, publication and illustration. Plastic Arts.

My interest in drawing and painting started at an early age. I believe I've always hated limiting frames and I certainly like to experiment on new materials. The material world is a giant canvas and an infinity of mediums, as well as the mind. Experimentation means to me real apotheosis, the quintessence of knowledge. I'm a perfectionist and maybe insane, although I'm conscious that I will never reach perfection. I've been enjoying the endless road.

Finished the studies at university in 1998 and since then I've been working in my studio in Lisbon as a freelancer. Simultaneouly, I've dedicated some time to artistic activities as painting and sculpture. In 2003, being conscious of the importance of digital technologies and how they have been revolutionizing the arts, I started experimenting several techniques in digital painting or mixed media (traditional/digital).

I believe that a new aestetics has grown and expanded from the digital media, allowing the artist more freedom during the creative act, in which the computer represents both, the material and the medium, being a powerful tool as fast as imagination.

It's not easy to answer when I'm asked to define my art in a few words. I've always faced it as “... a product of dreams with eyes opened widely, a journey through the human brain, exploring its darker places, opening imaginary doors to empty imaginary rooms... or maybe not.

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