Teresa Martins

Biografia

Her training and professional experience have always been in the communication field, but for many years now she has also been painting in different styles and materials. An unceasing desire to search for and discover new challenges made my artistic side evolve and create new ways of seeing, feeling and communicate.
With the usage of glass as a basis for my painting came the worry to recycle this material, often found mixed with garbage, reusing it and giving it a new life and a new appearance.
The fluidity of stained glass paint, the shine and the transparency of glass and acrylic materials mean that each and every work have a life of their own and interact in its own peculiar way with the surrounding environment. Each painting is influenced and its final appearance modified by the place where it is exhibited and the reflexions that come from those elements. No doubt it is a demanding material, but also a very enriching one.

In 2015 she included once again canvas in her work, using the glitter of stained glass paint in harmony with other materials such as acrylic or collages. With canvas she wants to capture the essence of this medium, both the smooth surface of the canvas and its own structure for the construction of her works.

In the following year, she discovers the tile and approaches it with the same energy that has characterized her work with other media. To this element she adds alcohol paint and resin to create single tile works or tile panels.

She has already done seventeen individual exhibitions and participated in more than one hundred collective exhibitions, both in Portugal and abroad, having received more than a dozen prizes in Portugal and Brazil.

Her work is represented in private collections in Portugal, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina and the USA.