Bernardo Medeiros

MY INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION
Brazilian, 65 years old, resident of Rio de Janeiro. I studied in the 80's at the School of Visual Arts - EAV, Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro. At the end of the 1980s, I stopped painting, returning to painting in 2019, and attending EAV again. My works are in acrylic o...

MY INSPIRATION AND MOTIVATION
Brazilian, 65 years old, resident of Rio de Janeiro. I studied in the 80's at the School of Visual Arts - EAV, Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro. At the end of the 1980s, I stopped painting, returning to painting in 2019, and attending EAV again. My works are in acrylic on canvas or on paper.
I research a lot, especially artistic and scientific expeditions and missions in Brazil, from the 14th to the 20th centuries, who portrayed habits and customs from the European perspective of the time, and the Brazilian fauna and flora.
These records encourage and inspire me to paint the diversity of nature and fauna, recreating fantastic and imaginary forests and landscapes, sometimes dramatic and innocent, but alive and preserved!
I am a nature lover and I live in a country rich and diverse in flora and fauna, despite the devastation that has happened over the past 100 years.
In these created images I feel like an explorer who is preserving and eternalizing nature.