Ana Machado

Ana Machado was born in 1988, in the Azores islands, Portugal, in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. She studied medicine and currently works as a family doctor in Lisbon city, but kept painting as a self-taught artist. Ever since childhood, painting was always around figurative art, some element of human presence was always felt needed to make a painting whole. Evolving with time, painting became a most-needed escape from the scientific world and the city, but mostly, painting continued to be a way to explore emotions, especially the ones that we don't have words to clearly describe. Some of her paintings have a poem that pairs with them that can be seen on her website.