Art Studios

At Associação Picada Cultural, which she co-founded, she develops projects combining theatre, puppetry and nature, creating spaces where art, imagination and the natural world meet. Through workshops for children and adults, she promotes creativity, artistic expression and a connection to the local area. She is also the artistic director of the Festival de Marionetas em Querença. Throughout her career, she has trained in Visual Theatre, Shadow Theatre and Puppetry with renowned international artists, developing a practice centred on the relationship between the body, the object, imagination and storytelling. Since 2022, she has developed Janina’s Stamps, creating handmade stamps, fingerprint illustrations and postcards. In 2026, she began exploring ceramics, creating expressive, playful and theatrical hand-modelled pieces that extend the poetic universe of her artistic work.

Lia is originally from Faro and continues to live there, with artistic training and a path connected to the arts from an early age. However, it was in 2018, during her third period living abroad in France, that she discovered collage — born from being far from her usual materials and from the need to reinvent her practice. Her work weaves together surrealism and the absurd, creating layered visual narratives that invite calm attention, pause, and contemplation. Breaking away from the fleeting logic of contemporary daily life, her practice proposes a slower, more critical and sensitive gaze, where art becomes a space for questioning — capable of moving, transforming, and touching without asking for much permission.

Luísa (1998, Brasília) is a textile artist and PhD student in Arts at the University of Beira Interior (UBI). Her practice has its origins in the sewing and collage techniques she explored in childhood, now revisited in abstract works that combine ancestral and contemporary references in an experimental and interdisciplinary approach. She began her artistic journey with embroidered illustration in Milan (2018-2019), later expanding her practice to encompass a wide range of textile processes. Since 2022, she has participated in exhibitions and residencies, deepening her involvement with wool and exploring its potential as a material and metaphor.

Marisa (1997, Loulé) is a visual artist. She has been drawn to drawing and painting since an early age, but it was in 2023 that she began studying classical oil painting techniques at Atelier Daniel Africano in Porto. Since then, she has continued her artistic practice in figurative painting, with a particular focus on the human figure. While living in Porto in 2025, she began painting tiles professionally and developed a deep appreciation for the craft. Her decorative and utilitarian pieces are inspired by the colours and imagery of traditional Portuguese tilework, which dates back several centuries. In addition to painting, she explores other techniques including drawing, engraving, screen printing, and cyanotype. She has participated in several group exhibitions since 2021.

Miguel is a musician, sound designer, digital artist, DJ and event curator/producer. He has a Master's Degree in Digital Arts (UPF, Barcelona) and is mainly interested in working in a multidisciplinary way to create multi-sensory experiences, on audiovisual shows and installations.

CASULUM is a photography studio open to all ages, focused on emotions and with respect for authenticity, in a minimal and timeless approach.

Inês Gonçalves and Morgan Bastos are independent designers working across creative direction, branding, and visual identity. Together, they co-founded ONE ANOTHER, a collaborative creative practice shaped through shared projects and collective processes alongside other creatives.

Rui (1976, Faro) is an architect and the founder of AAP | TAEP – Associated Architects Partnership (2011), an architectural practice operating from Portugal and Kuwait, with regular work in Bahrain, Qatar, and Dubai. His practice spans different scales and programs, with a particular focus on housing, public facilities, and urban planning, and has been featured in specialised publications and exhibitions.

In parallel with architecture, he develops work in the artistic field. He is a resident artist at LAC – Creative Activities Laboratory (Lagos) and collaborates with Ricardo Cruzes on the project Cruzes + Vargas = 3, presented in exhibitions such as A Soma das Partes (LAC, Lagos), Construções na Areia (Galeria Gama Rama, Faro), Quase Obra (Galeria Trem – Manuel Baptista, Faro), and Cidade Indómita (A Sede, Porto).

Tom (1981, London), is a London born painter. His creations are an experiment into release, expressions of freedom in an altogether constrained world. Tom’s work delves into that of the human psyche, with a fascination in the cycle of birth, life, growth and death. Tom now lives between London and Portugal.

Sara is the founder of Uraeus Studio. The project began in 2020, when she deepened her interest in the world of tattoos. She decided to create a space that brought together art, informality, and an environment where every idea is heard and recreated with the utmost detail.

Uraeus Studio is designed for people who appreciate art, good music, and an intimate, casual, relaxed atmosphere. The studio operates behind closed doors to ensure privacy and full attention to each project, offering a setting shaped for those who value creative intimacy and thoughtful artistic collaboration.

Zuzanna is a multidisciplinary communication designer. Her path is defined by the fusion of different fields: with a background in Linguistics and Design, experience in advertising, and an early passion for Art, she has developed a unique approach to visual creation. Her professional experience has been strengthened through on‑site roles in Poland, Portugal, and Spain. She also dedicates part of her creative practice to crafting one‑of‑a‑kind bags, each piece conceived as the tangible result of conceptual thought and inspired by the strangely poetic, impossibly possible moments of everyday life. Handmade après des heures by a communication designer who treats time as a material in itself, every bag is a singular Edition 1/1 object, carrying the quiet luxury of unhurried creation.