I am a daughter of the winds and waters. A gypsy, a witch, a storyteller. Sun sign Gemini, with Leo rising and Moon in Scorpio, born in the year of the Dog. My number is 7, and my tarot arcane is the 2, The Priestess. I am a daughter of Yemanja, the sea goddess, and Obaluae, god of the dead, in the African-Brazilian mythology. I am also an artist, a stars reader, a mother and a dreamer.

I am Patricia, born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where I've lived all my life until moving to the United States. I've been drawing since early childhood, and, as long as I grew up, my interest in art in general was increasing as much as I perceived it was a perfect channel to express my ideas and thoughts. I've attended drawing classes for a couple years and, as well as drawing, I’ve dedicated myself to a large range of artistical possibilities: dance, drama, music, design and literature. I end up graduating in fashion design, having had a good training in human figure drawing and representation techniques. I’ve worked for several years as a web and graphic designer, as both freelance and employee in communication companies, and also teaching drama and body expression as a paralel activity. Later, I got a degree in Art Education/Art History from the Rio de Janeiro State University, starting off my carreer as an Art Educator in regular schools and art courses. But, even though I had never stopped drawing, It was just after leaving Brazil that I began to think more seriously in a career on illustration.


My style is mainly figurative, whimsical, sometimes strongly colored, sometimes soft and ethereal; I have a knack for organic forms and textures, and for mixing abstracionism and naturalism. My techniques are quite simple; I use mostly colored pencils and graphite on bristol board, and sometimes watercolors. I seek for inspiration in a huge list of sources: folk and Eastern art, music (mainly ethereal, pagan and world music), Brazilian folk-lore, poetry, Junguian psychology, ancient traditions, myths, magic, Italian Commedia Del’Arte, dance, Art Noveau… I've been into spiritualism, astrology and tarot for many years, which have always strongly influenced me in my themes. About artists, I am influenced mostly by the Renaissance, Symbolists, Pre-Raphaelites and Art Noveau painters and illustrators; Boticelli, Dante Rossetti, Evelyn DeMorgan, Burne-Jones, Waterhouse, Alphonse Mucha and Gustav Klimt are big masters and references.

My idea of art is far beyond the material/conceptual character given to it by the contemporary era. Is something sacred, intrinsically bonded to the spiritual. Art history tells us that art rose from beliefs, from the intangible, from the sacred. With the passing of time, our concept of world became distorted thanks to the interests and ideas of the modernity; the ancient gods were being forgotten, and the arts, as a reflection of the society, has lost its connection with the sacred things. My art is an attempt to revive the gods and goddesses, to reverence the sacred feminine, to remind our common origins as sons and daughters of the Earth. To rescue the concept of art for the sake of beauty. The purpose of a good illustration must be to tell a story, simply as that. And if I can at least touch your heart with mine, making you become more conscious of the invisible realities that surround you, then my function as artist is accomplished.