Isabel do Los - Painter and Poet

Name: ISABEL DO LOS
Place of Birth: Maputo, Mozambique, 1952
Fine Arts Course at the Antonio Arroio School - Lisbon, Portugal

Inebriate with Colour

Maria Isabel Ribeiro da Silva Pinto is her birth name. Born in Mozambique, Africa 49 years ago, where she had a childhood and adolescence rich in experiences. So deep and intense were these that they left an indelible mark on her personality. Extroverted and equipped with a natural curiosity in relation to all that may touch the human spirit, she considers herself to be someone for whom the impossible is always possible.
The rebel and the conservative blend in her, confounding at times, those who may happen to know her.

With a strong love for colour, it is in colour nonetheless that she envisions the future of the world. It is one more of the characteristics she has inherited from the land saw her see the light of day. The warmth, the aromas lingering in the air and the colours that paint her birth landscapes have heavily influenced the work she puts down on canvas. She has become the painter of joy.

The vibrations of a past life within the present mark her everyday life, always. One might say that they are the pulsations of her restless, non-conforming almost naïf spirit.

She has adopted the Isabel do Los as her artistic name. Los is Sun read backwards in Portuguese. This demonstrates how the light of her native country is important, even essential to her. She favours an abstract style as she feels that the world we live in does not satisfactorily recreate what goes on in her soul. Isabel do Los prefers to recreate, reform, transform objects and landscapes into what she envisions as being more beautiful, dignified, candid and respectful for Man.

Works and Exhibitions

· Paintings commissioned by Johnson & Johnson and Disotel, Portugal.

· Works in Private Collections in Portugal and abroad: Miami and Rio de Janeiro.

Collective Exhibitions:

· October 1989 - "Federation of International Youth Travel Organization", Collective Art Exhibition at the Estoril Sol Hotel in Lisbon.

· November/December, 1989 - selected to take part in the Caves Aliança National Painting Competition held at the Salão da Sociedade de Belas Artes (The Fine Arts Society Salon) in Lisbon.

· November 1990 - Art Exhibition at the Entroncamento Town Hall, Portugal.

· September 1999 - Art Exhibition held at the Belem Cultural Centre in Lisbon.

· January 2003 - Art Exhibition during the I Anniversary celebrations of Adiaspora.com in Toronto.

· June 2003 - Art Exhibition in the ambit of Portugal Day Celebrations at the Alberto Castro Gallery, Casa do Alentejo, in Toronto.

Individual Exhibitions:

· In 2000 - The Gallery Almada Negreiros, Toronto, Canada.

Works in Private Collections in Toronto, Canada.

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