pinturas, fotos e lembranças vivas na memória

Minas Gerais Landscape

Casas do Interior

Maria Avila no Atelier

lembranças de Minas Gerais

Maria Avila

Coleção Simone de Almeida

Reaching out

Reaching out

Make ART instead of war. Be wiser to use your precious time.

Transition = Tansição > from inside out

Transition = Tansição

It started at 1984 when I painted my first abstract painting. I didn´t want to look for outside the theme for my paintings. I preferred see what would come from inside me, and then the abstracts paintings showed up.

Este quadro foi feito na época em que comecei a questionar a vida de artista. Muito trabalho, muita meditação, muita busca interior...uma jornada de dor e prazer.

The wheel of life

 I have been working on this painting for a long time, and finally I got a conclusion. I used different mediuns in order to give some textures, and I like the effect and colors.

Besides my art paintings I also like gardening what take me much time,  and a lot of pleasure too.
I have already almost 18 fruit trees in my back yard, plus flowers that let the garden full of joy and call hummingbirds, butterflies, and many others birds that live in this area.

This white flower we call " LÁGRIMAS DE CRISTO", and the other in a vase is known as " Chifre de veado".

Fernando Avila plays Fantasia Brillante e Facile - Luigi Legnani

Objects from a chemical engineer

Objects from a chemical engineer

Private Collection

Oil on canvas

I painted this canvas in 1980, to give to my children´s father, on Valentines Day. 

It contains his objects of working.

The pleasure of being a Grandma

Rodrigo Avila and his son Pedro Augusto

 Pedro Augusto and Luiza

Pedro Augusto

Caio - Taís - Pedro Augusto

Follow your HeART

"You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it come true. 

You may have to work for it, however." Richard Bach

Masks - collage

I am very curious and I like to try all different ways to express my feelings.

Some people don´t understand why I like to keep so much junk that is considered garbage. My intuition tells me " keep this", and I promised myself to follow my heart, always. Then, once in my studio, I looked around, sometimes I don´t know where to start, but as soon as I start working, something happens. I have been making ART for 30 years, I have made many exhibitions, in Brazil and abroad, I am still looking for my style. Do I need a style?

Did Picasso have a style? He painted in so many ways that he was unique, he was Picasso. And he said, " It took me 93 years to learn how to paint as a child".

I know life has taught me many different ways of living, and each day is a new day, and I am not the same. I am better as the time goes by. I feel I am happier now than when I was 20 y/o. I feel more confident and more tolerant than I used to be, I understand much more the "messages" I get now than the ones I got when I was younger. With age we learn to manage our time and life. Here is the ARTIST 24 HOURS: night and day I think about how is going to be the next work, painting or collaging. And I keep working...

It is much better being RED once than yellow all life.

I used to paint the papers before I am going to work with them. I try different colors and textures.