About Our Project
We are an independent visual arts teaching project, with courses and workshops aimed at various audiences. We have been doing this together for over 10 years.
Foundation courses in drawing and oil painting are the basis of what we do. We also develop workshops for artists and teachers, for different audiences (e.g. people with disabilities) and classes for young people.
Classes will be given in different contexts according to the aims that are defined: the classroom, the museum or nature.
In our practice we seek to foster a connection to art, its history, expression and thought. Our courses facilitate an access to the language of art and to our own innate capacities for observation and representation.
What guides us
Our project is informed by the idea that art is a practice that accompanies life. A practice that is defined by the creative relationship with the world, born from lived experience. Thus, with everything we do, we seek to create a space that provides that contact with art in a way where everyone is included, where the aesthetic dimension of life is at the center, and where a learning process can take place.
International Community
We regularly study with South African artists Rose Shakinovsky and Claire Gavronsky (rosenclaire) in Florence, Italy. We participate in workshops focused on specific themes and skills in the area of contemporary art practice and art education, as well as in mentored artist residencies. Our teaching project is accompanied by these two mentors.
Bodil Eide
was born in 1975 in Norway and obtained a degree in Fine Arts in Oslo, Norway. She has shown her artwork in galleries such as F15, Tegneforbundet and Hordaland Kunsntersenter in Norway and has work in the National Gallery's drawing collection. She was co-director for 7 years at an independent art school in Lisbon and is a regular guest teacher/speaker at art schools in Norway and Portugal. Bodil received her art teachers training in 2004 and 2005, beginner and advanced level, in Florence.
Paulo Borges
was born in the United Kingdom in 1969. In 1994 he obtained a degree in Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon. He exercised his professional activity as a designer between 1995 and 2015, developing solutions for print and digital contexts. Since 2007, starting with his participation in workshops and residencies with Shakinovsky and Gavronsky, he has dedicated himself to art and its teaching.