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How did your previous life as a C-level executive influence your art?
My career shaped me in intense ways. I carried stress, responsibility, and emotional sediment for many years. When I finally turned to painting, everything came out at once — the density, the rupture, the rawness. That is why my earlier series are so charged. They were not just aesthetic explorations; they were survival. This new phase is the opposite — it is what follows survival.
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Feminine lineage appears strongly in your narrative. How does it shape your abstraction?
I carry the stories of the women before me — their silences, their strengths, and their unspoken emotions. Even when I paint purely abstract forms, those memories are present in the layers, the textures, the ruptures, the soft veils.
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What defines your artistic process?
My process is physical, intuitive, and psychological — dense layering, gestural movements, raw materials, and spontaneous marks. It is guided by the language of lines — intuitive, emotional, and alive. Each gesture becomes a sentence, each mark a memory. I paint with movement rather than ideas, letting lines speak what words cannot. The canvas becomes a field where emotion shapes itself into form.
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What do you hope viewers receive from Gifts of Being?
A moment of pause. A sense of quiet recognition. If my earlier works asked, “Can I release this?” — these new ones ask, “Can we breathe together?”
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Your work often includes vertical gestures. What do they represent?
The vertical movement is a metaphor for passage — descent and ascent at once. It represents releasing what needs to fall, and rising into what needs to emerge. In Gifts of Being, the verticals slow down, soften, and open. They breathe.
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What distinguishes these new works from your earlier series?
Light. Space. Breath.
The textures are still there, but they are not heavy. The verticals still move, but they are not eruptive. The colors expand instead of compress. I am no longer painting to unload; I am painting to offer. -
Your new series is titled Gifts of Being. What does this phrase mean to you?
Gifts of Being reflects a profound shift in my creative process. For years, painting was a form of emotional release — a necessary catharsis after decades of corporate pressure, burnout, and inherited feminine memory. This new phase is different. It comes from clarity rather than urgency, from breath rather than tension.
For the first time, I feel I am giving something back — offering presence, spaciousness, and light, both to myself and to the viewer. -
How does your background in leadership influence your art?
My three decades as a CEO taught me structure, resilience, and the capacity to hold complexity — all of which now transform into gesture, texture, and emotional presence on canvas. My work bridges two worlds: the disciplined clarity of leadership and the intuitive freedom of artistic expression.
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What is the core purpose behind your art?
My purpose is to create art that reconnects people to themselves — art that brings balance, sensitivity, and emotional presence into contemporary spaces. Each piece is made to restore what modern life often erodes: calm, depth, and authentic feeling.
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What makes your work different from other abstract artists?
My work is born from transmutation — not just technique. It merges emotional psychology, feminine resilience, and tactile materiality with my lived transition from control to creation. The result is atmospheric, textured abstractions that act as emotional architecture, not mere decoration.
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What do you bring to the art market that is unique?
I bridge fine art and interior atmosphere. My paintings are not objects — they are environments. Designed for refined interiors, wellness spaces, and hotels, they bring serenity, depth, and soul to spaces seeking emotional intelligence in design. Few artists unite texture, transformation, and architectural presence the way I do.
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Why do collectors and designers choose your work?
Collectors and designers choose my work for its emotional grounding and sensory impact. Each painting carries a strong presence — tactile surfaces, natural pigments, and deep gestures that shift the energy of a room. My art offers what many contemporary spaces lack: calm, authenticity, and a living atmosphere of transformation.
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Why do collectors gravitate toward your work?
Collectors choose my work for its emotional presence: tactile surfaces, serene atmospheres, and a depth that transforms the energy of a room. Each painting holds a lived story of transmutation — making it both visually compelling and emotionally resonant.
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Is your art considered collectible or investment-worthy?
Yes. My career accelerated rapidly with international exhibitions, major commissions, and recognitions such as Top 10 Berlin Artist, European Artist of the Year Nominee, and AKOUN valuation ( (15P - 50cmX65cm - 550€. My work is increasingly sought by collectors and interior projects across Europe.
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What do your collectors say they feel when experiencing your pieces?
They describe a sense of calm, grounding, and emotional clarity — as if the artwork breathes with the space. Many say it feels like “relief” or “presence” in visual form.
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Can I visualize a painting in my space before purchasing?
Absolutely. I provide mockups and in-situ visualizations so you can see how each piece shifts the atmosphere of your environment.
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Is bespoken art available?
Selected commissions are available for homes, wellness spaces, and corporate environments. I work intuitively with your space’s energy to create a bespoke piece that brings texture, soul, and serenity. All begins with a conversation.
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How does your art support interior design concepts?
My work is designed as emotional architecture — it grounds spaces through texture, calm atmospheres, and soft strength. It complements minimalist, wellness, organic, wabi-sabi, and luxury interiors.
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What sizes and formats do you offer for projects?
I specialize in mid and large-scale canvases, including monumental works for hotel lobbies, spas, and wellness retreats. Diptychs, triptychs, and site-specific pieces are also available.
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Does your art work well in wellness and hospitality spaces?
Absolutely. My art was created for spaces that breathe. Hotels, spas, clinics, and corporate retreats use my work to elevate emotional ambiance, create serenity, and establish a strong sensory identity. I have several case-studies around Europe.
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What makes your work suitable for high-end interiors?
My paintings combine raw materials, layered texture, and serene palettes that integrate seamlessly with refined architecture. They introduce soul, presence, and quiet strength without overwhelming the design.
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Can you create site-specific or large-volume commissions?
Yes. I have created 20 artworks for hotels in Verona, 8 for a law firm, and 4 for a wellness center, delivering cohesive visual narratives for large spaces.
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What inspires your material choices and tactile surfaces?
Nature, memory, and the landscapes of Serra da Estrela. Sand, gesso, and pigments speak the language of earth and presence — grounding emotion into form.
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What is the philosophy behind your work?
My mission is to ignite continuous inner renewal. Painting allows me to translate what we often forget: softness as strength, vulnerability as wisdom.
Through every layer, I offer a gentle invitation — to reconnect, to breathe, to remember ourselves again and again. Every layer is a letting go. -
What makes your work different from other abstract artists?
My work is rooted in transmutation:
from boardrooms → to canvas
from business acumen→ to raw nature
from performance → to presence, from authority → to expressiveness, from rigidity → living environments.
This emotional lineage, combined with raw textures and atmospheric depth, creates a signature aesthetic: art with soul, weight, and serenity. -
Your claim is empowerment through art, particularly for women. How do you want women to feel when they encounter your work?
I want women to feel recognized — in their strength, in their softness, in their complexity.
To feel the kind of calm that arrives when you finally exhale.
To sense that their inner world matters, that their silence has weight, and that their emotions are not only valid, but sacred.
If my work gives a woman the feeling of coming home to herself, then the painting has done its work.re -
In what way does your story of reinvention inspire other women to transform their own lives?
My life is proof that reinvention has no age and no deadline.
After decades in leadership, I crossed a threshold back into emotion, intuition, and creativity — not by escaping my past, but by integrating it.
I hope women see that it is never too late to choose themselves, to begin again, to return to what was forgotten.
Transformation is not a miracle; it is a decision we make in silence. -
How does your art support women who have lived in high-pressure, high-performance roles?New List Item
My work offers them what their lives rarely give: relief.
A space where nothing must be achieved, controlled, or managed.
Through texture, gesture, and subtle color, my paintings create emotional rest — a place where women accustomed to carrying everything can finally put something down.
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How does your artistic process help women reconnect with their intuition, softness, and emotional truth?
That these qualities are not opposites — they coexist.
Vulnerability is the doorway to authenticity.
Sensitivity is how we perceive truth.
Strength is the courage to remain open in a world that encourages us to close.
If my work teaches anything, it is that quiet strength is still strength. -
Why is it important for you to leave a legacy for women specifically?
Because women carry histories in their bodies — of service, leadership, care, silence, and endurance.
My legacy is an offering to them:
proof that their inner life deserves space, beauty, and voice.
I create for women so they feel less alone in their complexity, more supported in their transformation, and more connected to the truth that their softness is power. -
How do your paintings honor the lives, pressures, and silent burdens carried by so many women?
Through texture, weight, and depth.
My layers mirror the layers women carry — unseen, unspoken, but profoundly felt.
The gestures hold both the chaos and the grace of a life lived in responsibility.
By bringing these emotional currents to the surface, my work honors the invisible labor and quiet endurance that has shaped generations of women. -
What change would you like to ignite in women — now and in the generations after you?
I want to ignite self-return.
A movement back to sensitivity, intuition, and inner truth.
For women to lead from presence rather than pressure, from wisdom rather than exhaustion.
I want future generations to inherit a world where creative expression is not a luxury, but a language —
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What message do you want women to remember about themselves when they see your paintings?
Remember that your sensitivity is your intelligence.
That your softness is your strength.
That your inner voice is still there — waiting, patient, unbroken.
I want women to remember that everything they have been searching for outside is already within them, just covered by years of responsibility, care, and self-forgetting. -
What is next for you as an artist?
This series opens a new direction for me — one where I paint not from urgency but from awareness. I want to continue exploring light, transparency, and the space where emotion becomes generosity. This is just the beginning.
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What legacy do you hope to leave through your art?
My legacy is to show women that reinvention has no age.
That they can rewrite their story, reclaim their voice, and rediscover their inner fire through creation — even after decades of living for others. -
One word to capture your entire journey? And Why?
“Tansmutation”
It captures:
My shift from CEO to artist
My emotional, psychological, and spiritual transformation
My textured, layered painting process ✨ your mission to help women transform themselves
My belief in art as alchemy
My identity as someone who turned pressure into presence.