About

Flávia Leitão is a Portuguese artist based in Porto.

She studied graphic design at Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Porto, and currently works as a graphic designer.

She is an interdisciplinary artist who works with illustration, and painting. In her painting practice, she frequently uses photographic self-portraits as a reference, as she is fascinated by figurative representation. Her favorite mediums are drawing, and oil. The artist uses her body as a reference to create portraits that are "disturbing, where the character is unsettling, mysterious and revealing at the same time.

She is inspired by contemporary artists such as Paula Rego, Colleen Barry, Leo Frontini among others