I was born
on the 24th day of August - 1988, in a small Portuguese city called Mirandela.
I was raised in France until I had around six years old.
In 1994 I came to Portugal and entered primary school.
Didn't had a very sane childhood, and used to be retracted inside myself.
Which caused what is commonly stated as a disorder, or somehow an
anti-social personality until late 1999.
Those years,
since I entered primary school, were the very beginning of my doodles and some
material experiments, I got a lot of obviously naive work that was death and
pain related from that time.
I started to paint in 2002, when I entered Arts and
Crafts on high school.
My style back then was inspired and influenced mostly by Dalí,
Matisse and other surrealists.
I spent most of the three years in art classes painting with a great lack of
technique, trying to put in value only the feelings and messages of
surrealism and symbolism, I used to paint what I like to call Naive-Surrealism.
I started my first paintings exhibitions in 2003, and made around 4 exhibitions in
museums and state fairs each year (2003-2004,2004-2005,2005-2006) along with my fellow
painting partners. I destroyed or re-painted most of these works, and i have
in photo only a few.
Later in the end of 2005 I tried to paint a reproduction of
an impressionist work and by consequence of being pleased by the result I got
slowly and accidentally in the Red/Yellow period that I
kept for about a year.
I got in a couple of short-video projects too, and exhibited along with other
artists on a contemporary video exhibition/workshop in the middle of 2006.
My relationship with the work in progress started to be very varied since the
start. In order to leave a piece of myself on my pieces, a lot of the paint
I use is solved with my bodily fluids, such as spit, mucus, sperm or blood.
Due to personal reasons I went to the town of Chablis, in France, alone
on September 2006, besides few visits to Portugal due to deaths in the
family I kept myself isolated from
everything I knew and almost didnt kept any contact with people, working and
giving myself fully to my paintings in my free time, until my came back to
Portugal in late 2007
