Freedom

My life is intense, and always has been. Four children. Work that has never let go - lawyer, CEO, consultant, a private office. The responsibility does not stop, and the pressure to decide is constant.

In that world, everything I produce follows rules. A legal brief, a report, fixed forms, exact objectives, no room for error.

Painting is where I put precision down. It is where I come back to myself, where I put down what I feel without fear of judgment, and where I simplify: two hundred places I have passed through, the people, the landscapes, all pared back to what remains once the noise is gone.

I have always lived in layers, balancing distinct professions, constantly experimenting, wanting to learn everything I can. My art could never be any different. I do not follow a single line; I build distinct series, each holding a different layer of my experience.

For now, painting lives in the spaces between my two worlds. But day by day, it is claiming the entire horizon.

The work lives in three series: Arcadia, landscapes of memory; Tabulae Vanitatis, Latin maxims meeting modern life; and Inner Sea, where colour becomes pure emotion.

Sílvia Biscaia is a contemporary painter based in the Algarve, Portugal.
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