Incredible Forms of a Marvelous Cosmos

Domingos Pinho, a remarkable artist from Porto, where he was born in 1937 and taught as a professor at the School of Fine Arts for about forty years, is also one of the most prominent names in Portuguese art of the second half of the 20th century. Fulfilling the vocation of painting as a deep and luminous breath of life since the 1950s, he works in the intimacy of a knowing gaze with silence, the enchantment of the real, oblivious to trends and avant-garde movements, following only the paths dictated by his sensitivity as an artist, poet, and researcher of the secrets of his art. In his current works for screen printing, "The Trees Die Standing" and a tribute to Jonathan Livingston Seagull, his gaze and brush capture the world with the sharpness of all awakened senses, and at the same time with an openness to dreams and the treasures of the imagination, creating form in service of the thoughts and fantasies that animate all creatures of a marvelous cosmos.