1. Tell me about your career and what led you to the decision to work as an artist?

As a child I loved to draw, to paint all kind of porcelain and I was always interested in doing artistic things. Over the time, I also became interested in literature and dedicated myself completely to literary studies, evidently a solid way to fine arts. I always had an inclination for the Arts, until I finally decided to take some courses, discovering my true passion.

I decided to take a first silk painting course and felt fascinated by the touch of the materials and the relationship between multiple colors and various possibilities. I had a wonderful experience with the results I achieved with a brush on textile.

2. Observing the development of your career and making a parallel between your work and the work of Brazilian artists like Tarsila do Amaral, one can notice some artistic dialogue between you both. How do you perceive a common language among women in the artistic creation in Brazil?

My work has the same light, the same purity, the same colours as Tarsila and other Brazilian artists who kept their Brazilian influences on their artistic expression, creating the identity of Brazilian Art. In other words, I think forms are soft, the works have a warm side and local characteristics, it is strongly related to light, characterized in different ways.

Brazilian artistic creation feeds itself from multiple sources, getting inspiration from the poetry of Machado de Assis and the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer, to culminate in contemporary works as brilliant as the art of Maria Bonomi.

There is a feminine side in all Brazilian creation.

3. What do you consider an evolution in these 25 years of your artistic career?

I feel I am a work in progress. I am aware of my role as an artist every moment more and more, I face fears, I research, I surrender myself to my art and let it flow, testing different media and materials. All in a cooperation that will adds clearness to my process.

4. Do you prefer working with or without titles for the art pieces and for what reason?

The title to me is of no importance at all, since my art is for the public, they decide what they see, what they feel. Whatever you want to name it, you are free to go…

5. How do you see the evolution of contemporary art in the last ten years?

I feel increasingly that contemporary art is like a laboratory feelings.

The current art has a role in expression and feeling without playing figures. The art of portraying left to treat. Dealing with topics of current interests, touching on the relationship of man with the matter. We are living a laboratory expressions where artists are dedicated to decode the thought of relationship with expression.

6. Most of their work comes to figurative art. What led you to choose and maintain figurative art in your career?

I like to focus my work in humans, particularly in women, because they are real figures of sense, beauty and consider the greatest creation. But I feel I have a strong touch of symbolism in my work and through it certainly got to the non-figurative and even sometimes to abstraction.

7. What are the challenges of painting, in the world of contemporary art?

It is always forward-looking.

8. What is essential in the career development of an artist?

Persistence and love of their work. The development of the career of an artist takes a lot of dedication, a willingness to see the work recognized and rewarded for what you donated through time.

9. In your opinion, what does the recognition process of Brazilian art internationally?

I’m not sure, but we are far from being recognized internationally.

The country’s image is not well crafted. Labels are complex and inferiorizantes for art, so I think that the work should be developed incessantly disruptive manner. The art in Brazil must be constant and persistent.

10. What made you choose the city of Paris as a city-key development of international career?

I did not choose, I was chosen. I believe in the saying “always reaches those who wait.” I believe in constant work and through the evidence of this recognition. I can even say that believing in your own work helps the artist to maintain its living history.

11. What in your present exhibition in Paris at the Cultural Center Cloister Billettes in October 2015?

Will present sculptures, women who pulled of my creations and paintings, transforming them into three-dimensional. I felt I should give life to my drawings, my paintings and thereby gain a greater representation of what I propose. I felt that on the screen, some characters demanded a stronger representation of their identities. Was a research work along with my curator, Ricardo Fernandes, I realized that some of these characters who talked me stronger, asked me to bring them even closer to our visual language. Hence arose the design of the sculptures, which is fascinating me.

12. What are your artistic career development expectations in the coming years?

When you get an entry into Paris through such a significant exposure, I believe I only have one thing to expect: that this door open to the world. So I believe that such projects will open doors for the recognition of my work as a Brazilian artist abroad, confirming my persistence and international career, also helping in the recognition of Brazilian art, to which I belong and believe.

13. What advice would you give to those just starting out in the art world?

Let loose your inner world, your patience, your dedication and your love, seeking development and specialization in what he does.