Madalena Lobao-Tello

I am a visual artist, painter and ceramist. The subject of my work is women. I born in Portugal, but I belong of all parts of the planet and my home is the World.
I work in a great number of mediums, including oil, charcoal, watercolour, acrylic, pencil, photography and mixed media. I have 3 sons.

My artwork can be found in private collections across Portugal, France, Mozambique, Switzerland, Chile, Nicaragua and Argentina

Semillas de Luz Selvática

Lobão-Tello. Madalena

“Flujo de creación morena
semillas de luz selvática
mistura existencial a colores
quinta esencia de lo femenino sin agravio.

Sustancia palpitante
contenida en los bordes del trazo
develando la sutileza de su trama.

Conocedora de otro tiempo
desde el fuego del origen
asiste muda al espectáculo
de la manifestación desplegada
en los territorios de la vivencia
del ser mujer.

Mestiza, Síntesis, Sincronía, Si misma ”


Susana Cubillos M.
Dirigente Feminista Autónoma

Here is where I paint

Exposition on the Ralli Museum

I work in a great number of mediums, including pastel, charcoal, pen and ink, tempera, gouache, watercolor, acrylics, pencil, photography, and mixed media, and now
I am currently painting in acrylics.

In me, there is also the spirit of the Portuguese sailors and adventurers.
It all starts with the journey imposed from the old world, the colonial Portugal to Mozambique, in Africa, full of black ethnicity , magic, shapes,textures, lights and a fantastic colorful splendor.

.The distance between my dormant origins and the sudden awakening does not exhaust the endless question: Who am I? I experiment this fabulous latitude, mixing it with other lives, other pains, with the purity of color and pattern of tiles they call Mestiza .

I built Attitudes from my Latitudes.
In these Latitudes, I searched the jungle light seeds that populate my paintings and ceramics.
In these Latitudes, I found the mestizo that inhabiting my artworks.

My Latitudes and Attitudes and the mix of color and pain that confronted me during this precursor of life determine my pursuit of art within the human being, specifically in the Universe of Being a Woman.

I am aware that in art, knowledge is to move, that art does not interpret, reveals, does not explain … shows the hidden side of the human being.

What I paint is therefore a journey inside the mind … in the “doors and windows of the soul”, female territories of connection with Life and Divinity.
These Latitudes, my attitudes and through Art I continued seeking the experiences of “Being a Woman”.

Madalena Lobão –Tello
Porto (Portugal ), 2001