Ana Santos

Hi,
My name is Ana Santos. I am a painter (painting and ceramics) but also am a professional social carer. I am now living and working near Southampton as a social carer mainly for elderly suffereing from different kinds of dementia. You can find below my bio and some of my artworks. You can also visit our Home Gallery (see on the menu on the left) and if travel to Portugal, you can also visit our Home Gallery (a real one inside our small house in Sesimbra, Portugal).

ANA SANTOS

Born in Lisbon in 1950. After secondary school, she became interested in art at once, first as a model and later as a photographer and photo assistant, working directly with the Portuguese photographer Sérgio Guimarães. He lived and worked in the years 60/70 in New York, London, Paris, Berlin and other European cities.
Later in the mid-70s, he was dedicated to the puppet theater, and participated as an actress in numerous festivals of the kind. Following this experience as AS puppeteer was invited to join the independent company of the Iberian Theatre, been the company's lead actress in late 1983. In this capacity participated in numerous national and international representations (Lisbon, Porto, Madrid, Sitges (Barcelona ), Murcia and El Paso (USA). In this last international festival she won the award for the best leading actress.
In the same year cooperates with Mario Cesariny and Carlos Martins (with whom would marry a year later), in organizing the international exhibition "Surrealism and Painting Fantastic." After the exhibition leaves the house where they lived and travels with her husband to the Northeast Algarve and both create the first art gallery in the region. The gallery called "Nova Atlântida" (New Atlantis) and  conducted several collective and individual exhibitions for about five years, and quickly won the recognition of local cultural resources and Spain (see Directory Art Portugal / Spain published in both countries).
Back in Lisbon in 1991 continues to participate in various national and international exhibitions, including the ISPA art gallery with names like Cruzeiro Seixas, Raul Perez and Carlos Martins.
From 1994 to 2014 back to work as a theatrical actress and entertainer acting for children and adults in various kinds of events.
In November 2014 travels to London and then to Southampton where she currently lives and works as a social carer in particular to support and assist the elderly with Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson and applying his experience as a painter and ceramist in the creative occupation of the elderly recreational and artistic activities.
Her artworks (in painting and in artistic ceramics), are counted by thousands and are currently part of private collections, particularly in the US, Germany, Austria, Portugal, United Kingdom, Belgium, among many others.
Recently Ana was in Portugal (Sesimbra) to open her own art gallery (called on this blog as "Home Gallery").