Catarina Guimarães
IMAGES OF WORDS, COLORS OF THOUGHTS, FRAMES OF THE SOUL
Painting
"Painting is a journey into passion.
It flows through the wilderness of life—untamed, radiant, infinite.
In the light of colors, I breathe freedom.
Each canvas becomes a place where hidden truths emerge.
Painting is not an escape; it is arrival."
Literature
I allow words to come when they are ready.
Sometimes they appear as a fleeting note, sometimes as a longer tale, sometimes they remain unfinished for months.
I do not know, and that is not what matters. I write because I need to.
Photography
My photographs trace a longing for what exists but cannot be held.
Knowing I will never grasp it, I become someone daring enough to reach for what cannot be caught — and that is why I keep photographing.
My Paintings
In my work I experiment endlessly—with color, shape, form, with texture, with the very substance of paint. I search for new solutions, new connections.
Painting is exhausting. It demands everything. It demands essence. For me, it is a synonym of passion, desire, and the questions that weave through them. But perhaps that is exactly how I want it to be. It is my way of dealing with the wild horses galloping across the wastelands of my inner steppes. No — they cannot be tamed. They are meant to race forward. Beautiful and free.
About the author
The author is an artist, a poet, an essayist. In her writing, lived moments dissolve into meditations on space, memory, and the fluid contours of identity. She carries within her a constellation of homelands, and many languages. In each city, in each tongue, life unfurls differently—thoughts bend into new shapes, the world arrives through shifting light. Beauty perhaps resides in this very metamorphosis. One might encounter her drifting between Lisbon and Paris, Naples, Vienna or Kraków.