“The Brazilian fine artist Sandra Nunes is in
love with her native city, Rio de
Janeiro, her main source of inspiration. Strolling
through its urban, suburban and bucolic sites, she interprets and recreates in
a passionate mood the relationship between shapes and colors, testifying the
routine of its inhabitants who most of the time stop to talk to her. Most of
her work is plein air, done in one or more painting sessions in oil, charcoal
or soft pastels. When painting the human figure, her medium of choice is
generally soft pastel for its vibrant colors and immediacy. Bachelor in Letters
and Arts by Rio de Janeiro
Federal University
and Major in Literature, Sandra Nunes brings to her paintings and drawings all
her background studies of the great masters, throwing a poetic look at the
urban landscape without loosing its contemporary feeling. Sandra often creates
her painting on the city streets, where inhabitants and passers by, who are
frequently her subject, often offer to purchase her work before the artist has
made her last brushstroke.
" I hope my paintings are not just
iconographic representations, but reflect also a deep insight into the subject.
Some of these works may display the beauty I see in Nature and the passion for
the pigments whether oil, pastel or charcoal. A painting with integrity speaks
for itself."
Nowadays, she attends a life drawing open
studio with the Brazilian contemporary great master Lydio Bandeira de Mello.
She states that life drawing is the basis for any artist, no matter his
expression is figurative or abstract.
Sandra has won many awards in several important
juried exhibitions and painting meetings, where the painting is supposed to be
finished "alla prima" and juried immediately after. Her work can be
found in many International and Brazilian private collections as well as in
Corporations such as : Rio-Zoo Foundation, Engineering Military Institute,
Brazilian Army Chemical Laboratory, Brazilian Army High Command School,
Historic Museum, Rio de Janeiro Military Police, Brazilian Navy, Casa de Saúde
São José etc. She has been featured in "O Globo" newspaper as the
First Prize winner in a Juried Show " Rio de Janeiro Landscapes" when
one of her paintins won the front cover of the book 'Chronicles of the
City" published by Litteris. Recently she had her project selected in a
contest "Art on the Wall" when she was comissioned to paint a mural
with dimensions of 6,30 x 13,80
feet (1,90m x 4,20m ) for a Hospital(Casa de Saúde São
José). The theme was inspired on a series of paintings done on location for
more than one year in Largo
do Boticário. The event was well attended and it was broadcasted on a Brazilian
TV network when she was invited for an interview. "Working in large
dimensions is a very rewarding experience as it stresses the gestural character
of my brushstrokes and reinforces the tactile quality of the painting".
Sandra Nunes is a representative member for Latin America of LAI - LANDSCAPE
ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL, member of IPAP - INTERNATIONAL PLEIN AIR PAINTERS and
associate member of CHAVE MESTRA - SANTA TERESA VISUAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION.
The artist is participating of the World Tour
of Contemporary Landscape Painters, the exhibition started in Karpeles Museum,
Newburg-New york, and is now traveling
throughou North America during 2007, 2008/2009, with events currently scheduled
for galleries in Colorado, Florida,
Vancouver- Canada and more to come. Feel free
to contact the artist by email, leave your impressions and for an eventual
order or comissions. We can ship paintings anywhere inside of Brazil or
abroad..”
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