Martins Raquel

RAQUEL MARTINS was born in the southern part of Africa in 1961. Fleeing her country in 1974, just after the collapse of the colonial empire, she arrived in Johannesburg and resided there until 1982. In 1982, Raquel moved to Portugal where she works and resides. 

For the next ten years she worked as a portraitist and it was not until 2001 when she began exploring painting as a form of expression as a full-time painter, and as a professional artist. For the past years her work has centred around figurative paintings ranging from a nearly abstract suggestion of form to a stylized graphic treatment.