Joo Teixeira

Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working Pablo Picasso

About
Joo Teixeira (born in 1982, Coimbra, Portugal), even as a teenager was hard to stand indifferent
not only to the close social situation but also to the one that came to him through the media.
Like any young man felt he had to make a difference in some way, that was here for a reason.
And perhaps this will to make a difference he tried to follow an area of study that he might fill that
need.
He studied at first Environmental Health at Health School of Coimbra, and right after finishing his
studies he stared to study Nutritional Sciences at Porto University. Although never regret these
choices felt that they were not areas that allow you to get closer to people, to make a difference in
their lives. So he decided to begin his studies in nursing.
While this path is not related to the arts, ultimately it had influenced his art.
Only in 2010, aged 28, takes up an old hobby when he was young, drawing. Started with making
portraits and figurative drawings, activity that lasted for about two years until he decide to try
painting.
In two years of learning about the basics of painting and its process by his own, he was able to put
his work in private collections in countries like Portugal, United States, United Kingdom, Italy, the
Netherlands or Germany.
Along the way, still short, it is possible to note the development of a personal style that has come to
be more accurate.
The characteristic style is entirely related to the process of his painting. Various materials are used
in their work, avoiding the use of brushes in order to accidents can happen. These accidents can
sometimes make the work go back a few steps, but once he overcome this setback the work will
became enriched by it.

Human body, with or without clothes, is the greatest source of inspiration, but as an artist
making a copy of a moment captured by a camera is not enough to make a good work, It's
necessary to look over and over again, fantasize, admire, contemplate and think about it to
make something different hopefully better, than the original image, better than reality, my own
vision. Somewhere between reality and abstraction."

Joo Teixeira, 2016.

Solo shows:
A titulo de titulo - Galeria Mercearia de Arte Alves & Silvestre, Coimbra, Portugal. 2013
CHROMA Galeria Mercearia de Arte Alves & Silvestre, Coimbra, Portugal.2014
CHROMA Fbrica do Brao de Prata, Lisbon, Portugal. 2014
CHROMA ll Museu da gua de Coimbra. Coimbra, Portugal. 2015.
No limite do real, Coimbra Culture House, Coimbra, Portugal 2015.
Group shows.
" a crise Galeria Metamorfose. Porto, Portugal. 2014
Exposio coletiva Galeria Metamorfose. Porto, Portugal. 2014
4th group show, Shair Project, Braga, Portugal. 2014
6th group show!, Shair Project, Braga, Portugal. 2014
Exposio coletiva internacional 7x7, Portugal and Spain. 2015

Untitled. 2013. 70x50cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, USA.

Untitled. 2013. 40x40cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, USA.

Untitled. 2013. 60x60cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

Untitled. 2013. 80x75cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, United Kingdom.

Untitled. 2013. 40x40cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, France.

Untitled. 2013. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

Untiteld. 2013. 60x70cm. Oil on canvas.

Let's take a walk. 2013. 50x60cm. Oil on canvas.

Untitled. 2013. 50x60cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

Untitled. 2013. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, United Kingdom.

Face n 1. 2013. 50x60cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, United Kingdom.

CH 1. 2014. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection USA.

CH 1, detail.

CH 2. 2014. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

CH 2, detalhe.

CH 2, detail.

CH 3. 2014. 40x50cm Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

CH 3, detalhe.

CVP 1. 2014. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, France.

CVP1, detail.

CVP 3. 2014. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

DH. 2014. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

DH, details.

JS. 2014. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, France.

JS, detail.

JS, detalhe.

Life change. 2014. 20x20cm. Oil on paper. Private collection. Portugal.

Abstract fashion. 2014. 50x40cm. Oil on canvas.

Lying in nature. 2014.61x70cm Oil on canvas. Private collection, USA.

Portrait 1. 2014. 40x32cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, EUA.

R.K. 2015. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

Portrait of a monster. 2015. 100x150cm. Oil on canvas..

Little boy. 2015. 80x80cm. Oil on canvas.

In Darwin's garden. 2015. 42x32cm Oil on canvas. Private collection. Spain.

Mohter. 2015. 100x100cm. Oil on canvas..

Untitled. 2015. 70x60cm. Oil on canvas.

Cavalo lusitano. 2015. 60x60cm. Oil on canvas.

Nude in Nature. 2015. 70x60cm. Oil on canvas.

Cersei. 2015. 100x150cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection, Portugal.

Av. 2015. 30x30cm. Oil on canvas. Private collection.

Untitled. 2015. 40x40cm. Oil on wood.

Bed in nature. 2016. 40x40cm. Oil on wood.

Bed in nature, details.

Girl seated on bed. 2016. 60x60cm. Oil on wood.

Girl seated on bed, details.

K.N. 2016. 40x40cm. Oil on wood.

K.N. detalhes

Nude in the field. 2016. 40x40cm. Oil on wood.

Nude in the field, detail.

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