Born in the state of Minas Gerais – Brazil, Patricia showed great artistic ability through her drawings at school and later in art classes. At the age of 14, she started her first painting classes in private ateliers with well-known artists from the region, being this close to these artists was a great start for Patricia, they had a distinctive but yet broad experience in the art industry. At the age of 24, she moved to Uberlândia to work and study to improve her artistic career.

As a student, Patrícia becomed an Art teacher, she started by teaching courses in schools and conducted several workshops in the cities of Uberlândia and Rio de Janeiro. She also participated in several exhibitions in Brazil and London where she currently lives and owns an art studio: Sfumato Art Studio. Patricia considers her coming to Europe has provided great growth to her work, especially regarding the use of colours, and her source of inspirations through living with different cultures without losing the essence of her work, which has a strong characteristic related to her country: the vibration of colours.

During her university degree in Visual Arts, she had a project titled ‘Painting Without Paint’ in which was a different way to learn new techniques. The theme chosen was related to her everyday life, her mother had a denim factory and she had the idea to use the sewing threads to create her artwork: ‘BETWEEN THE LINES’. Using pink of all shades, green, blue and yellow colours she created her artwork and built suspended paths to represent the coming and going of different cultures.

Her artwork ‘BETWEEN THE LINES’ was for a long time worked as an element of development and the exploration of different cultures and religions; which was something that always inspired her. With that in mind, her first inspiration was the Gypsies – as they read the lines in people’s hand – it was somehow connected to her university artwork in which inspired her for many years. From this point, new thoughts were formed and became graphically flexible for the formal and informal compositions, in which she created her first drawings and figures related to the Egyptian symbology, arising her love for abstract paintings and from which were “extracted” her passion for using vibrant colours.