Gonçalo Teixeira - Emberlit Vigil

Dimensions: 30x40 cm
Medium: oil on canvas
Ready to hang up: yes
Signature: front and back
Signed Certificate of Authenticity, Year: 2025
Painting is shipped already mounted on stretchers, so there is no need to do anything after the purchase - simply hang it up

All paintings by the artist have the sides fully painted, giving each object a more complete, polished, and three dimensional look, as can be seen in one of the pictures above.

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Note from the artist:
"Portraits are my bread and butter and the type of work I most enjoy doing. I have this little copy of the Girl with a Pearl Earring painting in my room and find it quite nice to look at - though I never knew who she was, her beauty somehow brings comfort. I believe beauty by itself is worth pursuing, it not only soothes us but points to something true and right, thus I tried to do something similar here, to bring a little bit of beauty to an otherwise empty space."

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About the artist:

Gonçalo Teixeira is a Portuguese painter whose work traverses the sacred and the sensual, the mythic and the immediate. A graduate of the University of Porto and Arts University Bournemouth, Teixeira brings classical training to bear upon subjects rendered with emotional precision and symbolic depth. His figures, whether conjured in oils or digital media, emerge not as static forms but as emblems—of memory, mortality, myth, or silent revolt. From delicate portraits adorned with crowns of blossoms to surreal visions of women threading skulls with blood-red sinew, his work refuses superficial beauty in favour of something fuller, more haunted, more true.

Drawing on a European sensibility steeped in allegory, Teixeira weaves together feminine archetypes, pagan echoes, Catholic shadows, and fragments of dream. What unites his varied output is a reverence for the human form—not as object, but as threshold. In each face lies an interior world; in each gesture, a narrative held taut by poise and peril. With exhibitions in Porto and Lisbon and collectors across Europe, Teixeira stands as a contemporary heir to the old masters: faithful to the figure, unafraid of feeling, and always attentive to the quiet murmur beneath the surface.