Last week Urban Sketcher Alexandra Baptista came to our little island to help us create a local group. We had a very nice evening in Museu Francisco de Lacerda with help of Catarina Dias. Here ia a sketch of two girls Iris Rodrigues and Cátia ...

In the month of June local artist Jorge Santos will work on a statue for the Art Garden of Grand Café Manezinho. Jorge is one of those special talents that island communities seem to grow by nature. Without any formal training but with a deep urge t...

The first version is from 2018. Initially I did not know what the painting would be about. I just threw some blobs of paint at the canvas and tried to see what they meant. When I saw the beak of the bird, I made it stand out by darkening the ...

The great digitization project continues 

Today we are launching the new website www.pieter-adriaans.com. The site has existed for almost 20 years but the technology behind the site was outdated. In the past month Jos Velema has created a ne...

Upon arriving in the Azores, Pieter Adriaans was enchanted by Azorean popular music. As a musician and artist, he was curious to learn to play the viola da terra – for the instrument and for its social and cultural importance. This is how he ...