Carla Peairo

Exodus
mixed on canvas, 1995



Walking
mixed on canvas, 1996



Genesis
acrylic on canvas, 2002



Batuque,
watercolor, 1998



The Bird,
watercolor, 1998



Freedom
watercolor, 1998



The Kiss
watercolor, 1998



Dream's Porters
acrylic on canvas, 2002

Carla Peairo is natural of Benguela-Angola, born in 1961. Soon in her life she revealed artistic talent and so following this direction naturally, she started to study drawing, painting and interior design at the Industrial School - and then in the High Education Science Institute, thence being able to perform as interior designer, social assistant, or teaching drawing and painting or either English language.

Her passion is to translate the spirit of Africa in her paintings. She realised until now more than forty exhibitions.
In 1983 she moved to Lisbon and worked in an advertising agency and in the textile branch : creation and modelling including programming, production control

At ARCO Art Center and Visual Communication she carried on studies on drawing, participated in workshops on graphic arts, modelling (argyle) as well as in the painting workshops from the National Society of Fine Arts.

She is member of the UNAP (Angola) and ArtAfrikSwiss.


Her canvases and other works count among many international private and public collections as: Angola, Senegal, Portugal, Switzerland, Germany, Brazil, Denmark, England., Norway and USA.

She now lives in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

"I wish and hope that my works bear on the feelings of love for life, for the human societies solidarity, an aspiration of cohesion".

Carla's Universe

Beyond the creation myth where are intersectant realities …, wars incongruity, ancestral beliefs and childhood images, her painting is "an astonishing irradiation of brilliant tonalities of the South Angola. It is a harmonious chromatic dialectic sometimes conflicting too, which seduces anybody taking one up to the tropics".(1)

Let us not look only at the " colours' tropic " side merely, we ought to see her whole work as the main source of her message in the Angolan society moreover the hope to keeping faith in the ideals of the Angolan personality

" Her canvases tell us the history of a people sacrificed on the war anyhow joyous and hopeful too. People that in spite of all that tragedy, possess an ingenuous soul where the drums' music that propagating in nature turns into ceremonies mixed of sacred and profane, in perfect harmony … and there are the languorous sunny afternoons composing the African landscape, which reflect in the colours and personages, sensual, mysterious, curling and also maternal". (2)

…. Symbolical denunciation of the permanent war state in Angola and the flamboyance of freedom found elsewhere, projection of a non refrained wish of seeing the peace and reconciliation spirit taking over in the Angola's land. It is also the love that never abandoned Angolan hearts, as such of all humans of all countries.
Would she search to join the clan of the "Dreams Porters" ?
Her attempts to divulge the pictorial art of that part of Africa seems convincingly…

Particularly through her many past exhibitions where she invited us to look at a great number of compositions conveying a message aiming at the human societies reconciliation.

" Just someone who possess deep experiences and his or her very awaken senses would be capable to reproduce such chromatic ambience as well as such forms swirls and light that we can admire in her works ".(3)


1- Antonio de Maues-Colaço
2- Piedade Coelho, journalist rdp
3- Mafalda Oleiro

L'Arbre à Palabres no 15, May 2004, Paris
Benoist Lhoni