I met Vera Sabino in Ponta Delgada 3 years ago. She was in the islands by invitation of the azorean government which sponsored a meeting of brasilian artists, writers and historians whose ancestors had emigrated from the islands to Brasil. I was drawn to one of her paintings which I bought and took it with me to Canada. I often look at that painting remembering one of the most important religious festivities of the islands which her ancestors took to Brasil. Today, Vera Sabino shares with me the Espiríto Santo through her art and vivid colors. I hope we can meet again soon. Vera Sabino Link
Humberta Araujo
For thirty years Vera Sabino has been a master of color and shape as her artistic eye sees Nature through a surreal retina. The locale is the island of Santa Catarina, its birds, butterflies, and the goddess of an Olympus subjugated by the enchantment and the sortilege of her art forms. There are fruits that have been invented; witches disguised as pythons of the Island, archaic animals, fish that cannot be found in dictionaries of everyday language, symbols of an inner perception. Vera Sabino is a synthesis of myth and reality, a live mirror of our universe under construction; free to re-encounter the most secret facet of freedom itself, a gift that the artist exercises with integrity, dignity and a rare splendor.
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