Raquel Martins Biography Born in Mozambique, Loureno Marques, now Maputo, in 1961. In 1974, apsa revolution, he moved to Johannesburg in South Africa where he finished his studies and attended the Johannesburg School of Arts. For best performance, although he studied graphic arts in design and, turning to advertising and illustration. In 1982, Raquel Martins comes to Portugal, where he becomes apprentice to the Master Joo Aires and he encouraged to continue artistic career. While working as graphic artists, first in Portimo, Coimbra then devoted himself to reproduce pictures on the screen under orders, but something was still missing to complete the ideal of the artist. Finally, when the artist felt that way in whipping through artistic ideal, came in the 2001 act awaited opportunity to devote himself to his first dream, the painting. The most viewable Specific to the work the combination of abstraction figuraoe, and despite his human figures are the most important subject in art ever, later to have been inclined to a more conceptual style of abstraction forming a neo expressionist. Today, she lives and works in Palmela.