JOÃO QUEIROZ

João Queiroz paints landscapes. He does not paint from the motif. His favourite mediums are oil, watercolour and encaustic. Eliminating any trace of figuration, his landscapes verge on abstraction. And when you look at them, you quickly realise that you need to read them twice, because here the painter is trying to get the viewer to deconstruct his or her usual way of perceiving a work of art.

For João Queiroz, the landscape is more a field of possibilities than a goal in his work; the landscape allows him to formulate a vast and extremely rich proposition, with an extraordinary range of elements and events available to him. His works are not accounts of a landscape, nor are they topographies. They represent a search for the possibility of a sensory rather than a descriptive representation of nature.

The work of João Queiroz is represented in numerous private et public collections in Portugal.