Ana Machado Art

Ana Machado is a Portuguese self-taught artist based in Lisbon, originally from São Miguel Island in the Azores. She develops expressive figurative works in watercolor that explore emotion, memory, vulnerability and inner worlds.

Alongside her artistic practice, she works as a family doctor — profession that brings her into close contact with human fragility, stories and quiet resilience.

Poetry often forms an integral part of her process, and some works are accompanied by her own words or literary fragments that inspired them. Her work is shaped by the contrast between island nature and urban life, bringing together softness, intensity and introspection.

Her work invites the viewer into intimate emotional landscapes where fragility and strength coexist.

Selected Exhibitions

2026 — Arrival Gallery, Group Exhibition, Lisbon, Portugal

2024 — Fabriano in Acquarello, International Watercolor Exhibition, Fabriano, Italy

2024 — Fabriano in Acquarello, International Watercolor Exhibition, Texas, USA 

2023 — Brick Lane Gallery, Group Exhibition, London, United Kingdom