Elisa Costa

Artist Statement:

I was born in 1975 in Portugal.
From an early age my taste for art grew with me. I started the taste for drawing at an early age and at 15 my parents bought my first painting material.
At the age of 16 I decided to learn to paint having reheated an atelier of painting classes.
Although I have opted for a degree in Accounting, art, creativity and painting are part of my nature and what I really enjoy doing.
Over the years I attended classes and art workshops in Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, never ceasing to paint.
Starting in 2016, I decided to embrace painting in a fuller way, and since that time I have participated in a series of national collective exhibitions.
I enjoy working with various techniques (acrylic, oil, charcoal, pastel, spray paint), and my work always has textures, colors, brush strokes, layers and layers. I like to add improbable elements that make my work stronger, more expressive and honest.
My work always carries a message of what I believe, values, principles, memories, thoughts, inspirations of travel, moments and states of mind.
The "Return to the Essence" series of works is a very important series for me because it represents the symbolism of memories, of returning to the essence and of my discovery as an artist, the elements and symbology that is representative of my message.

Education:

_Practical Course of Painting - Color, Composition and Interpretation, Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, FBAUP, 2017.

_ Current Practices and Painting Techniques Course, Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto, FBAUP, 2017.

Exhibitions:

2018

Arte solta / porto - porto, portugal

2018

Lethsart ponte lima / ponte de lima - ponte de lima, portugal

2018

Exhibition -presentation of album estrangeira by cati freitas / lisboa - lisboa, portugal

2017

Art map braga / braga - braga, portugal

2017

9th edition urban art at mupis / porto - porto, Portugal

Artistic Influences:

Abstract Expressionism
Tags:

Expressive, gestual, colorful, abstract.