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Beautiful detached 5-bedroom villa situated in a sought after location in Vilamoura PROPERTY DETAILS

• 5 bedrooms with fitted wardrobes • 5 bathrooms plus cloakroom • Very large living room with open fire place • Fully furnished and equipped kitchen with storage area • Bath room and a further spacious room in the basement, which can be used as an additional 5th bedroom • Fenced garden with automatic irrigation system • Large garage w/ automatic door • Swimming Pool with outside shower room • Electric entrance Gate • Alarm system • Air conditioning and heating system • Internal wooden shutters • Mains water • 3 golf courses in walking distance • Plot: 1.020 m2 • Construction: 353 m2 • EC: B

¤1.450,000 Ref: R-LMF-2

Left to right: Jessica, Toin, Tracy, Jane, Andrea

QUINTA ART COLLECTIVE

Five of the Algarve’s most creative women have linked up to create the Quinta Art Collective, of course, we had to know more and visit their first exhibition as a group at Aderita artistic space in Vale do Lobo

Jessica Dunn, Alternates between Oils and Acrylics painting abstract landscapes.

Tracy Carson, A portrait artist uses multiple different media.

Jane Rodenburg, Janes discipline is fibre art, she uses the colour and texture of yarn to weave beautiful diverse work.

Toin Adams, A renowned sculptor, materials used include steel, glass, stone, resin, glass fibre reinforced concrete, light and water.

Andrea M Bird, A mixed media artist who works with glass, mosaics, alcohol ink, resin and various media.

As everyone should know, we are stronger in numbers and these five creative ladies have taken this concept to their world of art by creating the Quinta Art Collective. Jane, Jessica, Toin, Andrea and Tracy are working together to bring artwork to an audience that understands the passion which goes into each and every piece created. The art world is one of perpetual motion and with an endless amount of knowledge to be gained, so learning from, supporting and encouraging each other is invaluable. Between them they have many years of experience ranging from fine art to sculptures and mixed media artwork, they really have something (if not a few) for everyone.

So let’s dig a little deeper and find out who has what to offer, starting with Andrea M Bird, a mixed media artist who moved to Portugal to get out of the rat race and explore her artistic potential. Andrea uses many different techniques to achieve her desired results, such as electroforming and traditional lamp work methods but generally many of her methods have been self-taught her work is very inspiring and her varied techniques give amazing results. Andrea’s work has featured in galleries in Portugal, the UK and China.

Jane Rodenburg’s grandmother was a tapestry artist and was the catalyst for Jane’s love of fibre art. Jane began her career teaching art, writing about the benefits of a creative practice, qualifying as a colour therapist, NLP practitioner, and hypnotherapist, before finding her passion in fibre art. She draws her inspiration from nature and from the writings of spiritual teachers such as Rumi, Lao Tzu, Thích Nhat Hanh and others. Her aim is to capture, using the colour and texture of yarn, what countless poets have fashioned with words.

Jessica Dunn Jessica Dunn was born in London into a theatrical family and was encouraged by her actor parents to take her own artistic path. After taking her art foundation, specialising in painting, she

moved with her family to enjoy the laid back pace of life of the Algarve, where she now paints full time in her studio. Alternating between oils and acrylics her paintings are a direct response to her surroundings, inspired by land, sea and sky and highlighted by the wonderful southern sunlight. Jessica´s process is completely intuitive, overlaying paint in a loose brushstroke with a focus on light to draw the viewer in. She has exhibited throughout Portugal, the UK and Europe.

Toin Adams is a sculptor who over the years has created some of the most amazing pieces both in scale and creativity. Her work is mostly large scale sculptures where she collaborates with Architects, Engineers and Technicians to create unimaginable pieces. Her main material is steel but she also works with glass, stone, resin, glass fibre reinforced concrete, light and water. Whilst most of her work is monumental in size, Toin does like to mix it up and create small to medium size sculptures as well as the odd mind-blowing mural, if you would like to see one, Gosto in Boliquieme are lucky enough to have one across the back wall

of their shop. Toin’s work can be found all over the world from Rio de Janeiro Brazil to Cape Verde and L.A in the U.S.A to, well our little patch of gold here in the Algarve.

Tracy Carson studied at Edinburgh College of Art and lived in Edinburgh for many years before gravitating to the Algarve where she now works as portrait artist specialising in bespoke portrait commissions in various mediums. She looks at an image, dissects it and then reconfigures it like a jigsaw puzzle, breaking it down into tonal pieces of the negative and positive space of the sitter Tracy concentrates on the windows of the soul, the eyes, to capture the subject’s true self, that little spark deep within..

The group’s first exhibition is currently on show at Aderita Artistic space in Vale do Lobo until the 8th of October. We will be getting to know more about each of the quintet and their processes in the future so keep you eyes peeled for that as well as their future projects. To contact them you can find all of their details online at the website quiuntaartcollective.com

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