Hi! My name is André Rios.

I was born in Portugal in 1986 and I currently live and work in the Netherlands.

Art has always been my passion and I studied in various art and design courses.

I didn't find the kind of teaching I was looking for so I taught myself and developed the artistic techniques I was aiming to learn.

Pastels are my favourite medium and the aesthetic I'm captivated by lies between surrealism and hyper-realism.

 

The style that I'm currently exploring is characterised by the fragmentation of realistic images with geometric pixel like shapes and develops in themes around concepts such as reality, meaning and perception.