I am a landscape painter based on Cortes Island, British Columbia, the traditional territories of the toq qaymɩxʷ (Klahoose), ɬəʔamɛn qaymɩxʷ (Tla'amin), and ʔop qaymɩxʷ (Homalco) Nations. I was born in Portugal, spent my young adult years in the UK, and moved to Canada in 1997. 

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STATEMENT

My practice is an ongoing search for a visual language that conveys the profound, physical experience of being within a landscape. I am less interested in replicating a scene than in creating a new one on the canvas—a landscape of the painting itself.

I don't paint the image of the land. I paint the forces that shape it: pressure, erosion, time, growth. The deep, untamed energies that are always in motion beneath the surface.

I work with anything that will carry paint—rope, twigs, rags, squeegees, water. I celebrate accidents and let the material push back. The process is a conversation, not a plan.

There is a moment of magic when the painting takes on a life of its own, no longer tethered to its source. It becomes a territory for the eye to explore—not a picture of the world, but a piece of it.

I paint for the immersive experience of the process. The painting is an artifact of that dance with the paint, of the subject, and the creative process.