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