Foz do Arelho Art Center

Art could not be forgotten, especially in a region that has given so many artists to the world and that celebrates art as a way of life.
If at the end of July 2020 we were opening Teresa Vai de Férias's store, in December of the same year we gave life to the art gallery, all at Rua Francisco Almeida Grandela, nº10 (on the main street of the village, right in front of the Bank ).

Two spaces coexist here: a permanent exhibition, an extension of an antique shop in Lisbon, where he finds surprising works and which includes paintings, books and some decorative objects and a space for temporary exhibitions, where each month we invite a different artist to exhibit.

We want to take art further, to help promote what we have in Portugal, to publicize our artists by giving them “stage” to show themselves.

​We leave the invitation to come and visit us, in this space we will also organize workshops and gastronomic events. Follow us because news will not be missing.

José Cardoso

Who is José A. Cardoso who chose Foz do Arelho to live? We are promoting painting classes with him, but we want you to know more about this artist. José A. Cardoso was born in Lisbon in 1945. He graduated in architecture specializing in interior architecture, graphic design and communication.

He carried out varied interior architecture and design projects for private companies and official bodies and illustrated several books, posters, promotional and institutional flyers. Designed and executed several stamps series for CTT, Unicef, United Nations, being awarded prizes and honourable mentions, nationally and internationally.

​ Throughout his professional life, he worked with many prominent figures in the panorama of Plastic Arts, Architecture and Design in Portugal, with special reference to Sebastião Rodrigues, Alberto Cardoso, Thomaz de Mello (TOM), António Sena da Silva, Daciano Costa, António Garcia, Troufa Real, Gracinda Candeias e Manoel Lapa, among others. He paints and exhibits regularly since 2004 and has several acquired works for private collections, Museums and Foundations in Portugal, Spain, France, Unite Kingdom, Ireland, United States of America, Australia, Estonia and Russia.

Joana Arez

Joana Arez is the artist invited to exhibit at the Foz do Arelho Art Center during the month of January.

Born in Lisbon ’70, in 1991 he graduated in Graphic Design at IADE, Creative University, Lisbon. Her professional path goes through multinational Advertising Agencies, first as an intern at McCann to soon progress very quickly in her career, being successively Art Director at TBWA; Creative and Executive Director at Saatchi & Saatchi, and finally, until 2011, at Publicis. Never leaving advertising and graphic design / art direction, that year he decided to give himself up to plastic arts. The painting. Joana Arez has a space / workshop in the Cidadela Art District / Cascais, where she sometimes exhibits her own work and invites other Artists to exhibit. 

“Since I can remember, I drew, painted and gave what I created, from charcoal portrait to figurative watercolor. Today I see myself and present myself away from the fragility of the pencil and the lightness of the brush. I exchanged them for the sharp-tipped pen and the strength of the metal spatula with wooden handle ”.