Graciete Matos
The Arts of Grace
About me
My name is Graciete Matos and I was born in Lisbon in 1981.
From an early age, I was always interested in everything that was geometric, a simple square alone in the middle of nowhere, fascinated me.
The geometric figures raised in me a path of ideas to follow, as well as everything that was unexplainable and surreal. Everything that belonged to the abstract side, nothing figurative, made me think.
The Abstraction created in me a mixed of sensations, of chimerical ideas disconnected from reality. Just like darker colour tones such as black, gray, wine colour, dry green, or various shades of blue, are colours that give me confidence, personality and creativity.
So I started to have a strong interest in this artistic side, and in wanting to learn this art.
After that, I got into University and studied Communication Design, had classes that I saw myself making use of, but others not at all, like the computers class that I didn't like it and made me impatient. I preferred the intimate side of a simple sheet of paper and a pen.
I learned a lot in University, I loved the Art History class, learned a lot about each of the artistic movements, the Drawing class made me sure of my personality as a visual artist, where I was able to learn and to explore my creativity by experimenting with colours, materials and different surfaces.
At the end of the University, I was sure that I didn't want to follow communication design because was an area too much connected to computers and graphic editors but I wanted to follow something more artistic and personal.
In the meantime, I got married and had a son, my life changed and by choice I went through other professional areas, without ever losing my artistic side and my dream.
Later, I started to painting again, creating my art for myself, then for family and friends. Since then, I haven't stopped, it was a long process with ups and downs, because I didn't always have the time or motivation to pick up paints and brushes, because I need a lot of concentration, to stay focused.
Sometimes I need to stop in time for new ideas to come up. I like to look at a blank canvas or a sheet, choose my colours or others, according to my mood at the moment and start creating something, where, throughout the entire creative process, I question myself what I'm doing, and sometimes even I don't know how to explain.
In my paintings, I use a lot black colour, Chinese ink, dark colours, several materials in the finishes and a pen for big and small details.
My art is a mix of emotions, which I try to represent through Geometric Abstraction, where I make geometric compositions and Informal or Lyrical Abstraction. I express my feelings and ideas in a natural way with complete autonomy, using shapes, lines and colours.
My instinct, my unconscious and my inner need, leads to my way of working, which allows different interpretations, with total freedom over the meaning of my art that I love, and I hope you too.
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Please contact me if you are interested in purchasing one or more of my paintings.You can also purchase my paintings from Saatchi Art.
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Geometric Composition
Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Own Style
Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Labyrinth
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Channel
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Perspective Side
Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
My Concept
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Tunnel of Illusion
Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Strange Facets
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Abyss
Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Deep Waters
Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
What The Look Hides
China ink and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Loneliness
Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Insinuation
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Curtain of Fear
Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Strange Place
China ink, Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Hideout
China ink, Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Wound
Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Core of The Web
China ink, Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Challenges
China ink, Acrylic and Pencil on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Whirlwind of Emotions
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Difficult Paths
Acrylic and Varnish on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Life drops feathers
Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The rain of flames
Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The Scream of the Forest
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Concept irony
China ink, Acrylic, Pen and Pastel on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Visual clutter
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The shapeless
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 195 x 288 mm / 7.6 x 11.3 in
Rain and wind
Acrylic on Paper, 196 x 283 mm / 7.7 x 11.1 in
Closed wound
Pen and Pastel on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Evil Eruption
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 192 x 284 mm / 7.5 x 11.2 in
The mind block
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
Desperation
China ink, Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, 210 x 297 mm / 8.3 x 11.7 in
The winter
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 190 x 239 mm / 7.5 x 9.4 in
Squares Disharmony
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Power of Silence
China ink, Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Consensus
Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Hidden Faces
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Opposites
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 592 x 434 mm / 23.3 x 17.1 in
The Balance
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Detail
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Geometric Cascade
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 286 x 206 mm / 11.2 x 8.1 in
Customization
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Lines in Space (I)
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 318 x 225 mm / 12.5 x 8.8 in
Lines in Space (II)
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 318 x 225 mm / 12.5 x 8.8 in
The Four Elements
Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Different Between Each Other
Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Between Traces and Compasses
Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Indifferent
Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Eye that Never Sleeps
Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
Sinuous Movement
Acrylic on Paper, 210 x 146 mm / 8.3 x 5.7 in
The Secret Path
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Trees that Whisper
China ink, Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
The Hell in the Middle
China ink, Acrylic and Pen on Paper, 285 x 210 mm / 11.2 x 8.3 in
The Flow of Ideas
Acrylic on Paper, 283 x 210 mm / 11.1 x 8.3 in
The Path Between Flames and Ashes
China ink and Acrylic on Paper, 297 x 210 mm / 11.7 x 8.3 in
