Born in southern Brazil, Heloiza Montuori (HM) earned her art degree at Escola de Belas Artes Alvares

Penteado in São Paulo. At university she experimented with different media and art forms: sculpture,

ceramics, pastels and oil painting. After graduation, employment in interior decoration and the textile

industry further refined her affinity for texture and color.

Her work reflects a passion for the natural world as well as her global experiences – over 20 years in

Asia, and, in the last decade, splitting her time between Brazil and France. She uses her contemporary

style to revisit nature, introducing a new light into some of the most traditional and revered elements in

Asian art and culture and, more recently, reimagining the French garden on her canvas.

HM paints with oil on linen canvas, using the palette knife as the primary tool to shape, layer, and

scrape. The palette knife enables her to build up texture and at the same time create a sense of three-

dimensional images. Through this technique of layering, the topography of the canvas becomes another

dimension of her work.

She has exhibited her previous collections in Asia (Singapore, Beijing, Shanghai, Bangkok, Taipei) and

Brazil. She is currently working on a new collection where she brings new motifs – poppies, magnolias,

hortensias – and revisits some of her iconic themes – gingko leaves, bamboo – creating vibrant, larger

than life, gardens on canvas.