João
Magalhães

João Paulo, 27, a portuguese biotechnologist by training, soon revealed that he had an artistic vein. As a self-taught artist, his first works date back to 2007, when he started to develop his skills as a painter. His passion for the sea and nature are his biggest source of inspiration, and sometimes can be visible between the lines of his works an appeal to society to the dangers these biomes face. However, many other interpretations are possible, given the eminently symbolic and ambivalent character of many of the elements he paints. His works are the progressive result of his complex and confused mind, shaped for his life experience, with splashes of an insatiable need to combine geometric shapes with a mix of colors, scenarios and contrasts; however, without never leave anything to chance. Basically, "an organized mess", as himself likes to classify.