Teresa Pato, a graduate in photography from the School of Fine Arts in Lisbon, is a member of the ateliers of the Portuguese Engravers Cooperative. In 2000, she co-founded the Água Forte Engraving Association with eight other engravers. She has participated in various workshops with both national and international teachers. In 1996, she was awarded the Youth Prize at the V Amadora Engraving Biennial, and in 1997 she received the Acquisition Prize at the VII Biennial. She has been exhibiting individually since 1998. In her current series of screenprints, the artist "comments" on the 7 deadly sins through a playful use of poetic allegories and subtle metaphors. Her interpretation of these sins is closer to fables and children's stories than to the negative and transgressive atmosphere they usually evoke.