Tomás Ferreira

Still life

Ordinary things on a dark ledge, given full attention.

Tomás arranges bread, fruit, flowers and old pewter on the same oak ledge in his studio, and paints them under one candle-warm lamp.

His surfaces are smooth and luminous, built from as many as twelve glazes, so the colour seems to glow from inside the canvas.

Paints from life only, 3 to 6 weeks per canvas.