The Spiritual Artwork of Angela Ferreira

Biography

Angela Ferreira is a Portuguese artist established in Cardiff, Wales. From an early age she has loved to travel. Many of the countries she has experienced have had a strong influence on her works, but she says it is the green valleys and the magical atmosphere of Wales in particular that inspire her to create ever more fantastic paintings of dream-like 'wonderlands'. It is through these imaginative paintings that she expresses her spiritual journeys within this world with a little bit of surrealism mixed in.

Angela has lived and studied in the USA where she won a School Art Award for outstanding achievement. Her work is being published in the next Spring Issue 2007 of National Geographic School books across USA. Angela’s paintings seem to be telling a story, a fairytale... Her goal is to bring cultures together, transmit good inner feelings, positive energy and to take your eyes on a journey to a different imaginative world. If you would like to see more of Angela’s work and find out about her exhibitions, log on to her website at www.magicpaintings.com.

Artist’s Statement

"The subconscious reflects on my paintings about life at the moment, my fears, my desires, my hidden thoughts... I get surprised with the outcome sometimes, it strikes me and it is beyond my explanation!"

Paintings

Title: The Avatar

Size: 101x127 cm

Medium: oil on canvas

Description: The avatar is the bodily manifestation of a continuous life form, the offspring of the yin and yang. All life comes from One source of energy, a force that binds all spirit to matter, alpha to omega, black to white, male to female, water to earth, night to day and so on...

Title: Mirror, mirror

Size: 127x101cm

Medium: oil on canvas

Description: The open eye is the awakened consciousness. Still life becomes a tool of the female artist. Motherhood, magic and art are all reflected in society as forms of power and are often missed by shallowness.

Title: Windmill

Size: 50x100cm

Medium: Oil on canvas

Description: We are all born of the earth. Death and rebirth are but a moment. The spirit energy is manifest and carried upon the wind, unravelling the psyche and purifying the soul.

Title: Give Peace a chance

Size: 170x78 cm

Medium: Oil on canvas

Description: A marriage of religious and spiritual ideals. Meditation and love and kindness in harmony with those enlightened beings who celebrate life and peace for all. An atavistic look at the origins of personal religion and a study of contemporary spiritual thought.