2025 / 2026
À flor da pele expresses a state where emotions are so raw and vivid that they pulse just beneath the surface, barely contained. It describes the fragile beauty in the human capacity to feel life magnified to the point where the heart is laid bare and the soul trembles exposed to the texture and sensation of the world.
This work captures those moments where beauty lies in impermanence, surfacing in those spikes of aliveness, like a heightened nervous system pulse, expressing the tension between reality and intention. The ever-changing flow, textures, stain washes, chaos and freedom represent reality itself, life in constant motion, full of unpredictability and often beyond our control. The symbology, on the other hand, represents intention: solid, structured points we choose to give meaning within that flow.
Through this interplay, the work reveals how we navigate life’s shifting nature by grounding ourselves in the symbols we create. Life exists as both movement and structure, and within that contrast I leave space for the viewer’s own interpretation.
À Flor da Pele expresses my deepest vulnerability yet, and it invites the same in the viewer. To see ourselves as delicate blooms of nature that feel life all the way from the strength of the core to the tenderness of the surface.
Day by day
Acrylic on canvas textile
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames
145 x 264 cm
Turmoil
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames
143 x 110 cm
Red Fever
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames
113c x 134 cm
Storm to Calm
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
Solid wood frames
108 x 158 cm
Blue healer
Oil and acrylic on linen canvas
Rice paper
Indigo coating
114 × 162 cm
Dirty Little Tenderness
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Rice paper
Indigo coating
120 x 104 cm
Gentle Damages
Oil and acrylic on canvas
64 x 74 cm
Hard to Touch
Oil and acrylic on canvas
75 x 75 cm
Naked heart beat
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Urucum pigment
94 x 94 cm
Raw Desires
Oil and acrylic on canvas
69 x 82 cm
Naked Nerves
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
134 x 138 cm
Hearts on Fire
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
194 x 164 cm
In the Heat of It All
Oil and acrylic on canvas
100 x 130 cm
Healing Hurts
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
153 x 123 cm
Guilty pleasure
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
79 × 115 cm
From thorns to bloom
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
75 x 75 cm
Gentle Throwback
Oil and acrylic on canvas
73 x 71 cm
Leaving old habits
Oil and acrylic on canvas
78 x 64 cm
Rusted Longing
Acrylic on Linen
Rice paper print with oil paint pigment
84 × 111 cm
Growth after the Storm
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
118 x 156 cm
Circle of Hearts
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
158 x 158 cm
Pain and Bliss
Acrylic on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
122 x 122 cm
Tamo Junto
Acrylic and Oil on canvas
Rice paper print with oil paint
80 × 1108 cm
Jardim Ribeiro
Oil and acrylic on mix textiles
Angel’s Trumpet flower
Museum glass
57 x 48 cm
Suffocation
Oil and acrylic on wood
Rice paper
Angel’s trumpet flower preserved in glass for a year
35 x 45
Corpo Fechado
Sealed Against Harm
Oil on printed cotton paper, brass nails on cotton and jute, woven in Brazil and Mexico
45 x 45 cm
Peluchín
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Museum glass
50 x 50 cm
Rising from Raw
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Hand-carved
64 × 40 cm
We are all crooked
Oil and acrylic on canvas
Hand-carved
34 x 47 cm
Bit by Bit
Weaved Mexican jute
Hand crafted frame
Clay tile
46 × 46 cm