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Borboletário is the live butterfly house at the botanical garden of the University of Lisbon. For the second time it hosted a 4-day science illustration workshop developed and instructed by me. In this edition participants used watercolor as the illustration medium and, as in the first edition, participants had access to the Borboletário’s educational collection of pinned and live specimens of adult butterflies and caterpillars. After the workshop, participants’ illustrations were on display at the Museum of Natural History and Science for one month and the exhibition was received by the public with praise.
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It was a pleasure to once again meet other European scientific and medical illustrators at the AEIMS annual conference held in Strasbourg and to present an upcoming book project. I also participated in the exhibition “Anatomy of an Image”, which displayed panels with illustrations and accompanying texts to detail the process of commission and creation of the images.
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I was honored to be invited to participate in one of the most prestigious events for Portuguese illustrators, the national meeting that annually takes place in São João da Madeira. I created three pieces specially for the exhibition themed ‘Hats’ and I also participated in the roundtable discussing the profession of an illustrator abroad.
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![Science Illustration Workshop at the Borboletário]()
![Science Illustration Workshop at the Borboletário]()
![Science Illustration Workshop at the Borboletário]()
![Science Illustration Workshop at the Borboletário]()
Borboletário is the live butterfly house at the botanical garden of the University of Lisbon. I created the syllabus and instructed a 4-day workshop which covered different black and white science illustration techniques using collection and live specimens. Later in September the Natural History Museum in Lisbon hosted the exhibition ‘Among Caterpillars and Butterflies’ with the student’s illustrations.
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I was delighted to be invited once again to participate in the Brazilian Science illustration meeting to teach two workshops on digital media applied to scientific illustration. Two of my illustrations were also on view at the conference exhibition.
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![Celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity at the Pavilion of Knowledge]()
![Celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity at the Pavilion of Knowledge]()
![Celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity at the Pavilion of Knowledge]()
![Celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity at the Pavilion of Knowledge]()
![Celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity at the Pavilion of Knowledge]()
![Celebration of the International Year of Biodiversity at the Pavilion of Knowledge]()
The celebration of 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity brought many events to the public around the world, highlighting the importance of species biodiversity, their threats and the pressing need for conservation. I was commissioned by the Pavilion of Knowledge in Lisbon to produce an illustrated panel about tidal pools and the diversity of organisms that use them as habitat. The panel was fully accessible to blind visitors displaying the illustrations as raised-lines and labeled in braille. See a sample of the illustrations at the portfolio page.
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![Exhibition ‘Adventure of the Earth’]()
![Exhibition ‘Adventure of the Earth’]()
![Exhibition ‘Adventure of the Earth’]()
Visitors of all ages can experience a unique adventure through the origins of our life and planet in an engaging and long term exhibition at the Museum of Natural History and Science in Lisbon. I collaborated extensively with the production team to create illustrations for the over 300 ft long exhibition wall, and by planning and executing the phylogenetic tree that includes real specimens. See a sample of the illustrations at the portfolio page.
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The illustration of the predicted moth Xanthopan morganii and the orchid Angraecum sesquipedale produced for the Darwin’s Evolution exhibition in Lisbon was selected by the jury of the GNSI Annual Member Exhibition to showcase at the Acadian Archives in Fort Kent, MN.
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![Exhibition: ‘Darwin’s Evolution’]()
![Exhibition: ‘Darwin’s Evolution’]()
The exhibition ‘Darwin’s Evolution’ celebrated the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150th anniversary of his groundbreaking publication On the Origin of Species. I was commissioned to produce an illustration of a famous coevolution example predicted by Darwin – the case of the moth Xanthopan morganii and the orchid Angraecum sesquipedale – that featured in an exhibit panel right next to live specimens of the striking orchid.
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The Science Center of Sintra exhibited reproductions of 12 of my illustrations.
