In the restlessness that often takes care of me, I sail in an ocean of spontaneity, which explodes in verses, poetry and stories on canvas, wall papers… It is impossible to control any emotion in the creative process, since all material can be aggregated: fabrics, lace, remnants of wefts from old rugs, earth, pigments, pieces of crockery from the bottom of the sea, strings, shiny sands, old drawings abandoned in drawers… with paints and pictorial materials of all kinds, providing tactile and visual textures, ennobling these inventions that spring both from the unconscious and from everyday experiences. Producing contemporary art, abstract or figurative, forces the physicist to manifest himself, sometimes in indomitable actions, like a beast, sometimes in surprising, light and subtle gestures, which permeate the traditional artistic work. Emotion is the master key, the spiritual drive that motivates me.
From Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
Graduated in Fine Arts from UFBA -1971
Degree in Design and Plastic in 1974.
Five postgraduate courses and specializations from UFBA and Universidade Católica de Salvador.Bahia (methodology in higher education and
Master in Art Education at Pennsylvania State University – USA 1980.
Doctorate in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Seville – Spain, – 1997
Salvador, summer 2022
Graça Ramos