Sara Alves
Sara Alves (b. 2000, Lisbon) is a Portuguese artist living and working between Poland and Portugal. Sara’s artistic work is primarily situated within landscape painting, figurative art and neo-surrealism. Her practice is rooted in painting and drawing, occasionally expanding into other media.
Her landscape project emphasizes the use of color and underpainting to explore themes of inhabiting a place and wandering through landscapes as a form of embodied travel. Working mainly with oil pastels, she uses an underpainting technique built from bright colors layered beneath her compositions, evoking influences from her Portuguese background alongside the environments she encounters. Her projects span multiple locations, including Portugal (mainland and islands), Poland and Cabo Verde.
In parallel, she develops a neo-surrealist project-based approach, focused on social critique. She addresses themes related to the psychological, ontological and social complexity of human beings, whether in a more intimate way or through a collective perspective, often starting from a literary context
Each one painted by hand.
Each one made for its moment.
No two signature bottles tell the same story. Every commission begins with a conversation — the occasion, the setting, the people it’s meant to move. What follows is a piece designed entirely around that vision, by hand, in the studio.
Artist’s Statement
This work was inspired by the beautiful groves portuguese olives originate from. Heritage and remembrance of the beauty inspired this work, and lends to the glow of the work.
