My passion for illustration started in my childhood. My parents always encouraged their children to draw, and my sister was always my inspiration. So that I often copied her drawings, until the moment when I came into contact with watercolor in elementary school. I think that's when I started coloring my own inspirations. During high school and part of college I left painting aside but I always wanted to practice it again.

 

Only at the end of the university, and in love with the biology course, I got back to my brushes and paints. Since then, watercolor has accompanied my journey as a scientist and began to be part of it with the publication of educational books, so starting my dream to become true: bringing science to society through art.

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There are a lot of artists that I admired, but there are two that have marked my trajectory so far. Ernst Haeckel and Margaret Mee. 

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Ernst Haeckel inspires me through his detailed illustrations. He was a German scientist and at the same time an artist as I want to be, bringing together his two knowledges to unravel the unseen microscopic organisms. As Ernst Haeckel shed light on microscopic creatures, I want to help to shed light on the animals of Brazil, as well as help to bring to children and adults the importance of the elements that make up nature and how they are interconnected for the well-being of the planet we inhabit.

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Margaret Mee, was an English botanic artist who inspires me in the sense that she, as a woman, had the courage to adventure in the middle of the Amazon forest, under very simple conditions, to fulfill her willingness to register the plants of the Brazilian Amazon through her art.  What fascinates me most about her paintings is the ability to contextualize plant species in their environment, in a way that demonstrates how everything is connected, while highlighting the plant in focus in a wonderful way. 

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