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Our Teachers with a wide spectrum of techniques
Our teachers are from an international background and have years of experience in their specialty and in giving art courses.
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Sandro Santilha
Sandro Santilha, born in South Africa, has had a passion for art from a very young age. Constantly driven to research art history and new and creative methods and artistic techniques. Well known for his sketching; drawing; painting; custom model building and photography which are an extension of his vibrant soul.
Drawing mediums: graphite; charcoal; colour pencil and inks
Painting Mediums: acrylic; oils; water colours; gouache/ temperas; dry pastels and natural pigments.
Supports: paper; canvas; wood and others
Kerstin Wagner
Kerstin Wagner, born near Cologne in Germany, graduated in Fine Arts in Bonn/Alfter and on Art and Social Development by the Alanus Art Academy. In 2015 Kerstin was part of the first Artist Residency International Exhibition in Goa, India, at Museu de Goa. She shows clearly the use and influence of three opposing principles: movement vs calm, chaos vs harmony and darkness vs light.
Adérita Silva
Adérita Silva, who likes to observe the person while they’re painting. “For me, painting is a way of communicating with others.” This urge for communication and sharing logically led to street art, which is accessible for literally everyone and creating art on the streets in the south of Portugal was a lifelong dream.
Jill Stott
Jill works with individuals and groups to encourage the discovery or re-discovery of the pleasures of seeing, responding and mark making, awakening ourselves to immediate being, dampening the mental chatter and opening an intimate dialogue with what swirls around us.
Raymond Parfait
Dr. Raymond Gilbert Parfait, a Belgian national residing permanently in the Algarve, was born in Germany in 1946. In parallel with his professional career in the biomedical industry, he has always pursued an artistic curriculum. He attended the Academie des Arts de Braine-l’Alleud, in Belgium for five years, taking painting and ceramics courses.
Using watercolor and oil painting techniques, he paints mainly landscapes and portraits.
Ricardo Inacio
Ricardo Inacio was born in Almancil in 1968. He is a painter, illustrator and Master in decorative tiles.
He has participated in several group and individual expositions in Portugal, Spain, Gibraltar and Germany, his work forms part of several private collections in Portugal and abroad.
In 2008, with the work “Mar Meu”, he won 2nd place in the Matins Leal painting contest on the theme “200 years of Olhão city restoration”.
Tracy-Jane Poller
Tracy Jane Poller‘s work is vibrant, colourful, sometimes expressive with its foundations based on Realism. She tries not to get too caught up in making her work look like a photograph, but does tend to like clarity in her work. She teaches various media including watercolour, acrylics, oil and chalk pastel, graphite drawing, charcoal, pen and ink, mixed media and textured surfaces.
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8300-334 Loulé, Portugal
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