Biography 


RVieira born in 1951, in Alcobaça, Portugal. Lives and works in Coimbra, Portugal. Worked as a nurse but also as an artist. She studied ceramics and painting at the Escola Universitária das Artes de Coimbra (EUAC). She has been working in sculpture, installations, conservation, ceramics, furniture, and paintings. She also learned and worked together with artists like Isabel Azevedo, António Melo, Vítor Matias and João Dixo. She is a member of the SNBA – Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes.

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Artworks

RVieira

Installation View

The Light

By Clara Pinto-Correia


It’s the light. The blue light that comes from the coast, where the white-sand beaches are soaked with foam scintillations from the surf of the biggest of all the big waves in the world. The light mirroring over the rocky cliffs full of rare birds’ nests and perfect fossils kids hunt for with the tenacity of well-trained scientists, with solitary beach houses hanging up above, silently turned to the faraway horizon where the ocean joins the sky and the sun rays dance away through the distance. It’s the light that bleaches the surfers’ eyes soaked with salt and voyages, forever guarding the surf waiting for their right moment for the sea to rise them to the top of the waters, where there’s no-one else but them and the wind, where no-one else arrived before and no-one will ever arrive again. It’s the light that comes from the coast to bathe the quiet villages further inside the landscape, silent white churches with their big bell-tower in the quiet of the churchyard in the mid-afternoon, ranch houses glue to the ground along narrow streets where no-one is in a hurry and everybody knows everybody else. This light visits smooth hills covered by fragrant bushes that come all the way down to the course of a big river that is gathering body, power, and volume to make through the last stage to its mouth, and where, many centuries ago, our chronicles registered the most beautiful and tragic love story of the Portuguese monarchy. This light is the light that once more and always tells us the story of Pedro and Inês.


RVieira

Her work is related to the naturalism art style, though without a social critic. Art style that aims to depict objects and scenes as they appear in reality, often with a strong emphasis on accuracy and attention to detail. She follows the style of many Portuguese naturalistic artists. Silva Porto is one of those artists because he was a Portuguese painter associated with the Realist and Naturalist movements. These movements emerged in the 19th century as a response to Romanticism, emphasizing an objective and truthful representation of the world. Artists like Silva Porto sought to depict everyday life with precision and accuracy.

RVieira wants to be known for landscape paintings and genre scenes that depict the rural life of Portugal. Her works often featured rural landscapes and everyday activities, capturing the essence of Portuguese rural and city life with a keen eye for detail. 

On the other hand, she can also be associated with the style of the Portuguese painter and Impressionist José Malhoa. José Malhoa was one of the leading Portuguese artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and he was influenced by the Impressionist movement that had gained prominence in France. RVieira, like many Impressionists, as well as José Malhoa, also explores urban scenes. Her paintings captured the bustling life of Lisbon, reflecting the modernization and changing urban landscape in the same way Malhoa did in the late 19th century. 

RVieira often employs loose and visible brushstrokes to convey a sense of spontaneity and immediacy. RVieira, too, adopts a freer brushwork style in his Impressionist-influenced works, emphasizing the play of light and color in his compositions.

Selected 

Exhibitions

Alcobaça

Galeria Tinturaria Covilhã  

Pestana Palace Hotel 

Lapa Palace Hotel 

Museu do Chiado, Coimbra

Centro Cultural de Belém – CCB

Museu João Mário 

Bulgari Hotel London

SNBA – Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes

Transitory Art I

Museu do Sabugal 

Museu do Vinho

Catalogues

Centro Cultural de Belém – CCB

Bulgari Hotel London

Transitory Art I

Percursos da Revolução. No tempo de Soares, Cunhal e outros

News

Instituto Camões

Qatar Tribune 

The Peninsula Qatar 

Salam Qatar 

Gulf Times 

Qatar TV

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