Angela Ferreira is a Cardiff based artist living in Wales who since young age has traveled extensively witch has strong influences in her works.

Angela Ferreira was born in 1978 in Portugal, sharing the same birthday as Wassilly Kandinky. The very famous and typical castle of her home town has a strong influence for her passion about fairytales which she grew up with a very good view from her bedroom window. But she says it is the green valleys and the magical atmosphere of Wales in particular that inspire her to create ever more fantastic paintings of dream-like 'wonderlands'. It is through these imaginative paintings that she expresses her spiritual journeys within this world with a little bit of surrealism mixed in.
Angela has lived and studied in the USA where she won a School Art Award for outstanding achievement and recently, her work has been published twice by National Geographic School books across USA.

Angela has spent one month in Brazil in an international program of Youth & Ecology, raising awareness of global problems and finding local solutions.
In 1997, Angela moved to Wales where she’s been living since, and this year has graduated with a BA Hons Fine Art degree from UWIC.
Angela’s paintings seem to be telling a story, a fairytale... Her goal is to bring cultures together, transmit good inner feelings, positive energy and to take your eyes on a journey to a different imaginative world.

Education:

2008 BA Fine Art (Hons) - UWIC Cardiff School of Art & Design , Cardiff, Wales, UK
2008 Level 3 certificate, Introduction to Youth Work – National Open College
2000 BA Art Practice, University of Glamorgan, Trefforest, Wales, UK (2 Yrs)
1997 First Certificate English Language - University of Cambridge, Portugal
1996 High School Sulphur Springs Graduation, (Exchange Student Program), Texas USA

Employment

June 2008 – Youth Work Art Project, Mural making and Arts & Crafts, Grangetown Youth Club
2005-2008 Creatives Biz, Bringing Art to Business. (http://www.art2biz.co.uk) Commissioned works, participation in exhibitions, events and art gatherings.
2001 – 2005 Centrica c/o British Gas, Data-entry Quality Coach and Adviser, managing and training teams.
1999 – 2001 James Howells Department Store c/o Jesire – Customer Sales Adviser within Cardiff most trendy department store.

Participation, Teaching & Work Experience

July 2008 – Lush Shop Window Display and Workshop Demo, invited to paint live demonstration outside Lush Shop Window to attract interests in communion to South Wales Artists and the Hand Made Cosmetics Shop.
Oct 2007 to June 2008- Volunteer Youth Worker at Buzz Youth Club, Grangetown – Mural Project, Art & Craft sessions, and supervising and other youth worker responsibilities.
Jan – June 2007 - St Cuthbert’s R.C Primary School, Cardiff – Working experience within a local Primary School, teaching art sessions to children, interior mural making and school decorating.
2006 - Ninan Park Primary School, Cardiff - art lesson workshop, teaching and working with primary school children (Exploring and understanding hatching and shading)
2006 - Creatives at Pica Pica Charity Art Auction of donated works to benefit children with kidney failure, Cardiff, Wales
1998 - Youth and Ecology 4 week youth gathering and awareness of Global Problems, Local Solutions, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Selected Exhibitions

2008 – Shop Window Display, Lush Hand Made Cosmetics Shop, Queen St, Cardiff
– Degree Show at Art & Design University, Howard Gardens, UWIC, Cardiff
2007 – Group Show, Christmas Local Artists Exhibition, S. Jose Gallery, Portugal
– Group Show, Cardiff University of Art & Design, UWIC, Cardiff
– Group Show, Holiday Inn Hotel, Cardiff
2006 – Group show, ‘Giclee Prints’ PICA PICA, Westgate St, Cardiff
– Solo show, ‘Water’ Barclays Bank, Cardiff Bay Branch, Mount Stuart Square, Cardiff Bay
– Group Show, ‘Mediterranean style art’, Pica Pica, Westgate St, Cardiff
– Solo Show, ‘Giclee Prints’ S4G Cyber Café & Gallery- Trefforest
2005 – Group Show, ‘Christmas Show’ Cibus Café Gallery, West Bute St, Cardiff Bay
– Solo Show, Tapas Bar, Mermaid Quay, Cardiff Bay
– Solo Show, La Tantra, Westgate St, Cardiff
– Solo Show, Hoffi Coffi, Woodville Rd, Cardiff
– Group Show, ‘Prints & Originals’ Le Café François, Trinity St, Cardiff

Publications

April 2008 - National Geographic– Artwork featured in the ‘Middle School Edge’ textbook, National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton Brown, estimated 200 000 copies throughout USA.

March 2008 – Livro Do Dia – Portugal, Book Cover“Admirável Diamante Bruto e Outros Contos” by Waldir Araújo published in Portugal.

May 2007 – National Geographic - Artwork featured in “High School Edge” textbook , National Geographic School Publishing, Hampton Brown, estimated 100 000 copies throughout USA.

April 2007 – Offerings Magazine, Issue 14 – Front cover and article about the Spiritual Inspiration and paintings of Angela Ferreira in the Cardiff’s Pagan Society Magazine.

January 2007- THE ECHO Newspaper, press news article featuring commissioned mural for Ninian Park Primary School- (Mural Brings a bit of playground magic for pupils) Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

June 2006 - Shared Earth – Exclusive publication of postcards being sold as the shop own at the Shared Earth Shops (Fair trade Company), a selection of 15 different reproduced paintings in 100% recycled paper selling throughout UK. www.sharedearth.co.uk

May 2006- BBC, South Wales - Arts in South East Wales. Featured online as a Welsh based Artist in Arts & Culture in Southeast Wales BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/southeast/tours/arts.shtml)

Comissions

2007 – Couple Portrait painted - Private Commission, Mixed Media on canvas
– Monty dog portrait - Private Commission, Oil on canvas
– Gymnastics and Aerobics Gym Interior Design and Interior murals - Portugal
2006 – ‘Mini Beasts’ Mural for Early Years Playground at Ninian Park Primary School, Cardiff
– Holiday Girl - Private Commission co Creatives, Cardiff, Wales
2005 – La Tantra I & II - Tantra Bar, Private Commission, Cardiff, Wales
– Tapas - Tapas Bar, Private Commission, Cardiff, Wales
2003 – Lisa & Jamel, Private Commission, Cardiff, Wales

Awards

High School Student Art Award, Sulphur Springs High School, Texas, USA, 1996