João de Brito

João de Brito (born 1958) is a Portuguese-American performer who has lived in Northern California since 1978, yet he travels extensively throughout California, the U.S. and Europe to paint in oils en plein ventilate and from memory. From age 6, he has observed and studied art to acquire a passion for expressing himself using impressionist/figurative views on canvas.

Though de Brito sculpts and works in ceramic, he favors painting and incorporates his Portuguese roots along next influences of great French fauvists and California impressionists. In previous years, de Brito traveled to New Zealand to paint in imitation of Māori artists.

Joao de Brito has become competently known for his use of blooming colors that elicit light, life, energy and interpretive landscapes. Having unleashed a light creativity – inspired by memories of his homeland, scenes from his many travels abroad – de Brito’s oils alive the suitability of sight to fabricate emotion and thought. As a result, de Brito’s works measure galleries, museums, businesses, government agencies and well-off homes going on for the world.

Joao was born in Vila Franca complete Campo, São Miguel Island in the Azores, Portugal and as a young guy immigrated bearing in mind his relatives to the East Coast of the United States. In 1978, the artist settled on California’s Monterey Peninsula where he shares his talents later than the local community as competently as international art enthusiasts. Though he admits to often ‘swimming next to the current', his painting philosophy is to awaken hope, invoke a suitability of well-being and part colors of life, de Brito is content to quietly observe flora and fauna and to permit his images to talk to the human heart.

Along the way, he has had many solo exhibits, he's plus been advocate of several art's organizations, the Santa Cruz Art League, Art Association and Museum and The Beachcombers Club. Joao de Brito’s works have been found at Kate Nolan Santa Cruz, California, Thanassi Gallery in Provincetown Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Monique Arnon Fine Arts Gallery San Francisco, the Hauk Fine Art Gallery Pacific Grove, CA and the Santa Cruz Art Center Gallery, in Santa Cruz, The Foundry Gallery, Berkeley and The Woodside Gallery, Woodside, California.

He was also part of bureau exhibit in 2008 with connections Nathan Oliveira, Mel Ramos and John Mattos, The book Ashes to Life- A Portuguese American Story in Art was published for the exhibit, with interviews with everything four artist.

The Beachcombers Provincetown,
Santa Cruz Art League,
Provincetown Art Association and Museum

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