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Surfers

About me

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I’m originally from Macau, where Chinese and Portuguese roots intertwine like threads of history and tide. As a child, I crossed oceans to Australia, growing up beneath wide skies and salt air — a life shaped by, sunlight, flowers and the rhythm of the sea.

This crossing of worlds lives inside my art. My heritage whispers through colour and form, while my heart beats in the patterns of this southern land. I’m deeply inspired by Aboriginal art and culture — its reverence for the earth, spirit, and sea, its sense that creativity is a living pulse flowing from the land itself.

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Each piece I create is a dialogue between past and present, nature and dream, between the precision of line and the freedom of chance. My journey through abstract and surrealist art is an act of discovery — to find emotion where it hides, and to turn the invisible into shape and motion.

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In an age of automation and artificial images, I believe in returning to the human hand — to the tremor, the imperfection, the truth of imagination born from within. My art is a reminder that creativity, like the sea, can never be replicated — only felt.

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