Elsa David

Elsa David nasceu em Lisboa em 1961 e formou-se na faculdade de arquitectura da universidade técnica de Lisboa em 1985.

Trabalhou durante cerca de 10 anos em grandes empresas de arquitectura e, desde 1994, passou a dedicar-se com exclusividade ao seu atelier, tendo desenvolvido inúmeros projectos em diversas áreas (habitação - comércio - escritórios - remodelações).

Autentica viciada em desenhar desde que se conhece, seguiu em 2003 o impulso de passar para outra escala as imagens que a habitavam desde criança.

Tendo feito ilustração para revistas e jornais, a sua pintura conserva ainda muito desse mundo.

Foi desenvolvendo, despretensiosamente, o prazer de pintar, revelando um mundo cheio de cor e humor, uma terra quase feliz, com personagens que contam uma história e nos envolvem emocionalmente.

Embora a arquitectura ainda seja dominante na sua práctica profissional, a pintura acompanha-a, sendo o campo em que melhor expressa a sua total liberdade criativa.

Elsa David was born in Lisbon, Portugal in 1961 and received her degree in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the Technical University of Lisbon in 1985.

After working for ten years in large architectural firms, she founded her own atelier in 1994. Since then, she has developed numerous projects in a variety of areas (housing - retail - offices - remodelling).

She has had a passion for drawing ever since she can remember, and in 2003 she followed her impulse to take the images that have lived in her since her childhood to another dimension.

Her experience as an illustrator for magazines and newspapers has informed her paintings, which retain much of that world.

She unassumingly nourishes her pleasure in painting, revealing a world full of colour and humor, an almost happy land with characters that tell a story and involve us emotionally. This is mirrored in her further artistic expressions through her pottery ladies as well as her designs for coffee sets for Vista Alegre.

Although architecture still dominates her professional practice, painting has grown in importance for her as the venue where she best expresses her fully creative freedom.