Born in November 1944 in Pombal and deceased in Lisbon in 2011, this artist relocated to Lisbon in the early 1960s. In 1995, they began drawing in a spontaneous and immediate manner, unaffected by external influences. Understanding the creativity of their work necessarily involves grasping the concept of “outsider art,” the art of self-taught artists with psychological issues, who are often marginalized and distant from the art culture, its history, or references. This is what the artist accomplishes by resorting to art as a means of expressing their unconscious, through deliberately distorted and unfinished lines, the use of bold colors, and asymmetrical compositions. Their work reflects the biography of their life, at times solitary and fragmented, and the imperative need to express oneself.
In 2008, the CPS published their only screen print, and an article by João Prates about their work was published in issue No. 65 of RAW VISION, considered the most important magazine worldwide in the field of Outsider Art. In 2013, Tomás Paredes, President of the Spanish Association of Art Critics, published an article about the artist in the book “Women and Art,” integrated into the XIV Congress of Art Critics. In 2021, they were one of the selected artists to be featured in the special issue on Outsider Art of the prestigious Canadian magazine HB, alongside artists from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ivory Coast, Iran, China, and Japan.
