COVER STORY
At home and abroad Imagine a tribute to the fishing folk of a fabled town on the Silver Coast of Portugal that is three-hundred feet long. It is, indeed, nothing short of monumental! By Ron Fortier
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n the town that I once lived in, there is a ceramic mural created by the eminent Portuguese Artist Luís Soares. A self-described Modernist, Soars is quite prolific and executes in a variety of media from paint to ceramics. He was born in Mozambique and attended the Instituto Portugal de Lourenço Marques in his birth country. He currently lives in and maintains his studio in Cascais on the Portuguese mainland. Luis Soares was influenced by the cultural mix of white, Black, and Asiatic culture and art in his homeland, which not only profoundly affected him, but it also became a part of his characteristic styles. He has exhibited world-wide, is included in major collections and is wellrepresented in Europe with his public art installations. His wonderful ceramic mural pays hom-
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April 2021 | The South Coast Insider
Luis Soares
