Ana
Clode

Ana Clode is a Portuguese visual artist born in Funchal, Madeira. Architecture-trained in Lisbon, with studies at Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes and at Central Saint Martins, London, she brings a structural eye to landscape, reading the land as mass, threshold, and fracture rather than view.

Her current body of work, Land(e)scapes, returns to the island she left at eighteen and to Desertas (the islands she watched from the shore) painting what places do to the body before the mind can name it. These are landscapes built from memory rather than observation: places that once felt too small to hold her, now revisited with the distance of years away. Across the series, thread is sewn into the surface where paint and pencil reach their limit, saying what the image alone cannot. The horizon recurs throughout, sometimes barely visible, sometimes the only thing left standing, as the place where the noise of what was left behind gives way to what was always waiting beyond it: hope.