Maria Lopes
Location
CASCAIS, Portugal
Preferred artistic medium
Contemporary, Painting
Art level career
Emerging
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Artist statement
I'm a 58 years old self-taught artist and I restarted painting last September after dedicating my life for 30 years to family and other line of work.
I love art. During my life I always wanted to get back to it, but sometimes life takes us to other paths. Now, widowed and 4 children raised I finally have time to find myself again.
Art is for me a way to express and connect myself in a more profound way, it's reading in between the lines of life. A connection with myself and nature around me.
I usually paint with oil and sometimes watercolour/ink. These are the mediums that I feel comfortable with. Since last September, I've been working really hard to have a body of work that can express my evolution . I paint mainly dramatic skies and never include in my paintings man made things. Maybe I will evolve to other mediums, like cold wax, and maybe in the future I will include people... but it's too early to say.
For now I'm finding my way to paint the emotions I repressed for so many years inside of me and it has been an amazing ride! More is yet to come...