Drawing

It's the last exhibition of Teresa Gonlçaves Lobo whose motto is an invitation to look at these drawings rediscovering the riding lines, dynamic gestures, organic shapes, ideas that were attached to the matter and also to find an empty page, the birthplace of lines, as describes Isabel Santa Clara.

One feature of your work is the trace. And already said many times you how to start a work, but have no idea how it will end.
Teresa Gonçalves Lobo: When I start a project I do not know, I have no idea, where the trace takes me. I'm in a state of mind where I feel like drawing, this means to me that my head is free, I am free of thoughts, ideas to draw, this is very important in my case and I can only speak for myself. Never work thinking that I'm doing this drawing, of course, when I have the impulse, the will and then I will choose the materials I'll use. I work with very fine features and that means I am in a state of great peace and caught, for example, a china ink pen and use a very thin paper, because it is this lightness I feel like it and it takes a long time. I have records of drawings, which take forever, realize I´m tracing and suddenly think: you have to inbreath. It's almost like not breathing. Of course, when I make these designs not only have to be in a certain state of mind, as in an area without noise. Sometimes they ask me if I like listening to music, I enjoy music, but when I'm drawing usually do not like such interference, I prefer to leave what is in here and not be influenced by other things that come out. Then you have other strong records and maybe I feel like drawing with pastel and charcoal and leaves with weight that can withstand the force that I want to put there. And I also do engraving, but then I draw like with a metal pencil that has a strength that paper would never hold and I'm exhausted.

You come from an island, is the inner island reflected in your way of living as an artist?
TGL: I think you have every right to make that comment. The island is here in my drawings, since several people told me that, on the mainland they tell me notice I'm from the island and I find it interesting because it's a sign that I'm there. It is natural, because it's with me, although I do not live here, is a part of me. It is natural that you see much of the island. I believe so and I like to know that. But I do not deliver to the design this concern of the island in the drawings, it is not me and I let it flow.

There are three shades in this exhibition, what kind of shades wanted to show here?
TGL: I never intend to show anything. I buy the materials with which I like to draw and design. Then when I choose to work for the exhibition I do not have a fixed idea, I'll get works that make sense to be together. In this case, we see many drawings in black and I draw a lot with this color, I really like that feeling and the reason is because black does not distract you. Let me give an example, if you have a landscape with various lines of one color, maybe we will focus on those some lines. If we put this same design in different colors, maybe we see this same landscape but with a wide range of tones, but we stop seeing the drawing. And I think that is why I am so fond of drawing in black. But, I have sepia drawings which is a color that is almost shy. I have other colors like red, alone, or with black background.

Also like red?
TGL: Yes, I do. It is a remote color, that is associated with so much. But if I end up get in it for some reason, I drawn with red so often, I begin to question myself, why is it that you like this red to draw? These are things that when I'm buying the material I not think about it, but after I put these questions to myself. Why I did this? I think you only know yourself from what we do. And not just any red that I like, it's the bright red that I love to draw and symbolizes so much good, life blood, but also love.