Fátima Sardinha was born in 1975, in Faro, Portugal. She started painting early, at the age of 14 in a Painting Club at Basic School. After, was a student of Arts during three years at the Secondary School. She continued painting all her life as a hobby and made some local exhibitions near Porto where she lives. She is a primary school teacher, with a Master and PhD degrees in Child Studies, specialized in Elementary Mathematics. During these years of study she painted less because the demanding's related to her research.

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In 2018, she decided to return to painting and invest seriously in her passion since early age having created more than 100 artworks since then.

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She mainly uses pure oil as her favourite painting material without the use of almost any mediums. Significant amount of the produced artworks are made using impasto technique which, through painting-knife strokes, allows to create breath-taking textures in all the paintings. She expresses her feelings through an emotional intuitive painting. She translates the music being listened while painting into the canvas creating a high rhythm expressed by the repetition of some art elements and by the constant movement of the strokes.

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Acrylic, sand pasta, oil pastel, Indian ink, watercolour, unicorn powder or the incorporation of leds, are just some of the additional materials used in the artworks.