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The women in my paintings don't have to choose.
The women in my paintings don't have to choose between strength and softness, or between power and vulnerability. That tension, held in the same face, the same frame, is what I paint.
I'm a Brazilian-born self-taught oil painter based in Manchester since 2008. I grew up in Rio de Janeiro. No formal training. Just time, and the decision to keep showing up.
My current series, Womanoids, imagines a dystopian universe where humans worship robot goddesses. The work is built from my own experiences. A patriarchal upbringing reclaimed through painting. Sixteen years working with software engineers, watching AI go from useful to threatening. I use AI to develop my references, placing myself inside the system the work questions. The reference images are then reclaimed entirely through paint.
If we are already worshipping machines, what happens when the gods start looking back?
Iara, currently on the easel, sits at the threshold of that shift. A 120 × 100 cm panel: a Brazilian river goddess pulled into the same frame I'm building the Womanoids in.
Recent work has shown at Salford Museum and Gallery Oldham in 2024, and Galeria Rivera in Portugal in 2025. The Unsteady Crown was runner-up at the Salford Museum Open 2024.
I take a small number of commissions each year. If you're drawn to the work, I'd love to hear from you.
The talented Vivi, though we never met, managed to do more than simply paint a photograph. She captured the glow of my 19-year-old self. Thank you.
When your very talented pal paints this for your birthday. Wow. I was actually speechless and did shed a few tears. Thank you so much.
Wow, fantastic. It truly captures him.
Wow, humbled by Vivi and this gesture.
What a wonder, it's the Goddess Hecate. I love them all but this one really touched me. The symbolism. I love it.
It would be an honour for me to buy this piece. I really like this series but I especially like your efforts to present yourself with the reveals, the self-portrait speaks to that, to me. When you decided to close that series with a self-portrait in a series of goddess paintings, it represented, to me, your quarantine-inspired transition. Shine on.
What drew me to it was the kind of painting you've made and the tones, which fit my living room perfectly. Every time I look at it I'm glad I bought it; with each new piece of yours I want to add another.
