ORIGINAL ART,
MADE BY HAND

I’m creative, energetic and outgoing at heart — art and surfing have always been my two biggest passions, and I’ve been lucky enough to build both my lifestyle and my career around them.

I’m a multidisciplinary artist, but what I love creating most is pop art — fusing the cultures I come from, the experiences I’ve lived, and the artists who inspire me into every piece I make.

As a teenager I competed at a national level surfing in Brazil and was on track for a career as a professional surfer, before choosing an academic path instead. I moved to São Paulo for university, earned my degree in Social Communication and Advertising, and went on to work at some of Brazil’s biggest advertising agencies — Fnazca Saatchi & Saatchi and Dentsu.

After finishing my degree, I held an exhibition of my own artwork and left Brazil to see the world and chase my dream surf spots. Along the way I’ve live painted at events like Inner in São Paulo and store launch parties, exhibited alongside a live auction in Guarujá, Brazil, and since landing in New Zealand I’ve shown work at Riot and Eye On Fire Gallery in Auckland, and at Street Prints Gallery here in Mount Maunganui back in 2017.

Travel keeps feeding the work — I’ve surfed in Peru, travelled the West Coast of the U.S., lived three months across Panama and Central America’s Caribbean coast, chased waves in Fiji, explored Samoa, spent five months living in Bali, and passed through more than 23 countries along the way. Travel has become a passion in its own right, right alongside art and surfing.

Today I’m a New Zealand citizen, based in Mount Maunganui for the past 10 years, where art, the ocean and an ever-curious spirit continue to shape everything I create.