My name is Rafael Mesquita, Brazilian, live in Curitiba, ParanĂ¡. I am 28 years old and have a degree in civil engineering. As a child, aged 8, I took an oil painting course where I could learn and develop painting and drawing techniques. It was at this moment that I recognized myself as an artist. I followed another path when I grew up and became an engineer, but art has always been for me a moment of self-care and, in lonely moments, I went back to practicing with some doodles and paints.
In 2017 I returned to painting, practicing and studying while working in an urban planning office. Starting in 2020, with the coronavirus quarantine that made us stuck at home, I used art as a form of refuge and painted for almost every day. This made me achieve goals and develop series of personal works, portraits and self-portraits about isolation.
Currently I work only with art, I have a series of eyes painted on canvas, portraits that talk about feelings. I work mainly with oil paint, but I perform with a mixture of materials, such as graphite, spray, acrylic and other techniques that can bring to the work other sensations and ideas.
Experimentation is something that captivates me and I seek to insert it into art. I follow paths where the paint itself and the brush trace the goals. I consider art as a pure feeling.
