Our Team
Margarida Ornelas
This is our team...
I have always swam between two waters, or between three, to be more exact: watercolor, teaching and painting. All this excites me and I can't say which one I would choose. But painting, watercolor is what motivates me the most in this world...
Patricia Guzmán is a Mexican painter known for her realistic portraits in watercolor, oil, and acrylic. Patricia's work has been recognized with more than thirty awards around the world.
Lives and works in the city of Querétaro, México
Julia Barminova is a talented Russian watercolorist.
Since 2012 she works in watercolor technique, combining the classical school with her own exclusive methods.
Michael is often called a “sunny watercolorist” – his airy, transparent artworks look as though they emit the sunlight.
His traditional academic art education, extensive experience as a head theater stage designer, and oil painter career now inform his priority as a watercolor artist – light.
Luis Cámara was born and lives in Madrid, Spain, where he has his studio.
Economist by profession, he began to paint in oil media, but from his encounter with watercolor he devoted himself entirely to this technique, studying with some great Spanish watercolor masters.
I have always swam between two waters, or between three, to be more exact: watercolor, teaching and painting. All this excites me and I can't say which one I would choose. But painting, watercolor is what motivates me the most in this world...
Eudes Correia is a talented Brazilian watercolorist, settled in Lisbon.
Eudes transforms ordinary people who travel in the city, almost invisible, in the main characters of his work.
Graduated in Painting by Fine Arts School of Lisbon, Carlos santos Marques is today an watercolourist awarded internationally. His artistic activity is divided between France, Spain and Portugal.
The Painting holidays give his students a better chance to work from nature.
Elsa Figueiredo keep studies in initiation course in drawing at S.N.B.A., course in porcelain at an artist studio, tiles glazes at E.S.B.A.L., and start to search in the subject of firing clay sculptures like kiln-sculpture, pit firing, raku and paperkilns.
In her work she investigates contrasts between textures and light; manipulates materials until they reveal their inner strength in a specific dialogue that the fire will fix.
Ana Margarida studied wall painting, panoramic and "Trompe l’oeil" in École Murs-Dec, Nantes.
She is also a teacher of acrylic painting and manual Arts.
“As beautiful as painting, after 36 years in this journey, is to transmit some of my knowledge in drawing and watercolor”
-- Antonio Giacomin --
He has an amazing ability to catch the light in the landscape and with his experienced use of colours produces striking oil paintings of landscapes.
The Painting holidays give his students a better chance to work from nature.
Painting outdoors like impressionists did is very interesting.
She sometimes uses her camera and take some pictures to finish the work at home.