Cris Pimenta is a self-taught artist who discovered her talent for painting in her forties, after a long season in Vienna, Austria. There, with a small city guide in hands and eager to walk alonf every single street in town, she visited most of artistic treasures in Vienna.

In addition to being bathed by the waters of the River Danube and the site of Imperial Palaces, Vienna houses in its countless museums, pieces of art from great artists of all ages and styles. The explicit contact with art in every corner of the city acted as a trigger to the awakening of her gift for painting. With a few sheets of paper, some brushes and a small set of watercolors, she began to express feelings through colours, touched by that unique experience.

The ludic act of painting and the reflexive way to express art through methaphors brought out a kind of catharsis.

After her return to homeland Brazil, painting originally meant to be a hobby, became her main activity. Thereafter, she has decided to dedicate her time exclusively to painting.

Delighted with the effect that art had on her life, Cris Pimenta has directed her work aiming the democratization of art, with the development of projects that allow to approach art to people's lives.

"My wish is that people recognize art (I dare to say!) as a basic need. Art has the power to transform people and to transmute the most challenging moments of intense experience into self discoveries! It is a great source of reflection and self-knowledge. Therefore, art can cause changes in personal values ​​and through this awareness lead to positive changes in behavior. "

Cris Pimenta has as source of inspiration and beauty, issues connected to reality. She develops pictorial figurative pictures, moving through different and various themes, mixing a wide range of colors and shades in a completely empirical experience.

Her painting revel her natural , sensitive and intuitive essence, either representing a nature view, the expression of wild animals , a still life scene or even playful images like reminiscences of dreams.

This artist personal technique has been developed through research and self-study what enabled her to specilize in watercolor paintings on paper abd a mixture of technics using water-based acrylic ink.