Duarte Botelho
Title: "The Colors of My Soul".
A door closes, a window opens.
Technique:Serigraphy
Dimensions:36 X 39 cm
Edition:100 signed and numbered copies
Reference:NLB0001
PVP:€135
“Amar Amarante"
They are forgotten shadows
Deleted memories
They are promised lands
Lands loved by me
Amarante, my land
Without you I can't live
Only you create dreams
I just want to die...
Only you deserve the body.
The soul and all my being...
This song that packs you
Melts my heart
Make a cut in time and life
Giving me all the inspiration...
Makes me want to cry
Makes me want to smile
Makes me want to scream
But I don't feel like running away.
Amarante, my land
Without you I can't live
Only you I belong to you
I just want to belong to you.
Nair/95
“Amarante, my love…”
On the balcony of my room
I hear the river murmur
Run to your destination
Looking forward to returning...
There are no stars to see
No dreams to tell,
There is only my river,
The bridge, the church...
And São Gonçalo in the moonlight.
Amarante, Sao Goncalo
I was born to love you
Your river, your people
I don't want to separate.
In this sleeping soul
To never wake up
tear by tear
A river forms
that promises
Don't abandon us
In joy, in sadness
In love, in solitude
In this flame that unites us
amaranth to the heart
Nair/95
About Nair Leite Basto
1953: Born in Lisbon on 16 April.
1995 - 1998:Training in Painting by Professor Júlio Cunha, at the Atelier d'Artes e Ofícios,
1994 – 1996:Collaboration in local newspapers in Amarante, in Amarante Magazine, with poems by Nair.
1995 – 2010:Realization of 5 Individual Painting Exhibitions and participation in seven Group Exhibitions. between the years 1995 and 2010.
1998:Participation of the cast of the Theater Play “O Doido e a Morte”.
2007:
- Collaboration in the creation of the website APVT – Association of Teachers of EVT – 2007.
- Course for Basic Education Teachers, 2nd Cycle variant of Visual and Technological Education, Degree – Higher Institute of Education Jean Piaget, Canelas Vila Nova de Gaia.
2022:Participation in the Illustration Contest, for the book “Avô Minguante”, promoted by Pingo Doce.
1966: As a teenager, he begins his first studies of drawing with the painter Miguel Arruda.
1996
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Participation in the “Amostra de Criatividades”, in the Cloisters of S. Gonçalo, in Amarante, in June.
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Participation in the “Cultural Week of Lousada”, in Aparecida, in Lousada, in October).
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Participation in the collective exhibition of “Alunos do Atelier D'Artes”, at the Parish Council of S. Gonçalo, in Amarante, in December.
1997
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Participation in the “Exhibition / Sale of Paintings and Crafts”, in Leça da Palmeira, in April
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Participation in the “Amostra de Criatividades”, in the Cloisters of S. Gonçalo, in Amarante, in May
1998
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Participation in andxposition of Manifesta/98, in the “Praça da Cultura” of Escola Secundária de Amarante, in November
2010
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Painting exhibition “Mistério da Cor”, at Fala-Só, an Intercultural Association located in Bairro Alto, Lisbon, in March.
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