Belinha SilvaHA03Art is my essential food of soul, crucial to awake my feelings, senses and emotions. Having always had a huge passion for art, I couldn’t escape from creating.
In 2005, while living in Brussels, I attend for the first time artistic courses. I had the highlight of my life by understanding my real artistic potential, the irresistible desire to develop it and the punch to express myself artistically. Since then, I draw, paint in acrylic, watercolor, and oil, paint on porcelain, as well as on silk, I sculpt and create jewelry.
I always work according to the inspirations and feelings of the moment, linked to a socio-cultural, historical, sentimental or personal context.
I invented my own art style, which is a mixture of Surrealistic, Optical Art, Pop Art or Abstract painting. In a few words, it is a contemporary art style influenced by the various European countries where I have lived.
My creative spirit and the accumulation of various art techniques allow me, as a self-taught painter, to achieve creations which are the fruit of my own designs and to develop my own working techniques according to my needs. I like to innovate, combining textures and materials. Therefore, I invented a mixed technique "Painted Porcelain & Acrylic on canvas" by mixing two completely different materials, porcelain with canvas. This technique allows me to create an avant gardiste, contemporary and inimitable work, giving also a new life to porcelain. I mainly paint my canvas in acrylic, but I paint also in watercolour and oil, as well as with the enormous palette of porcelain painting pigments and mediums.
The aim of my paintings is to brighten up our daily live and to touch the sensitivity of the public.
I hope you enjoy my artworks, as much as I enjoy creating them…
Belinha Silva
Exhibitions
Lisbon – Barcelona – Zurich – Brussels – London – Venice – Madrid – Rome – Luxembourg – Paris – Lecce – Leiria – Milano – New York.
Awards
Spring 2020: “Special Recognition Award Certificate” from the Light Space Art Gallery.
September 2020: “Special Recognition Award Certificate” from the Patterns Art Exhibition.
November 2020: “Fifth Place Award Certificate” from the Fusion Art Gallery.
December 2020: “Certificate of Merit” from the Competition Art Prize Luxembourg 2020.
April 2021: “Competition Award Winner” from the Contemporary Art Gallery.
October 2022: “Finalist Certificate" from the Circle Foundation for the Arts.
Winter 2022: “Artistic Excellence" from the Circle Foundation for the Arts.
December 2022: “International Art Award 'Menelao' of the High Recognition Personalities
in the world of Art, Science and Culture" &
"Honorificentiam Artium Meritis al Maestro: Belinha Silva"
from the Academy "Italia in Arte nel Mondo" in Lecce, Italy.
February 2023: “Artistic Excellence" from the Circle Foundation for the Arts.
5th April 2023: "INTERNATIONAL PRIZE LEONARDO DA VINCI"
for ALL of her creative artworks,
from the’ FONDAZIONE EFFETTO ARTE’, Italy.
