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
Catarina Guimarães is an artist, poet, and essayist who lives and creates between languages, cultures, and shifting inner landscapes. Formed by many worlds — by crossroads cities, by multilingual currents where continents meet, by voices that move between tongues — her work grows from movement and memory, from the experience of living at the edge of borders, where belonging is not a fixed point but becomes a path toward the world.