About Isabela Flores de Moura
From the original book, April 2020. Historical biography and references preserved as published.
Isabela Flores de Moura’s story begins like many others: she draws since she had enough motor capacity to hold a pencil – that was, according to her mother, at the age of 3 years old. But she can’t confirm this information because she didn’t have enough brain capacity to hold the memories in her head.
And the story continues as many others do: she dropped the Astrophysics university by the end of 2013 to study Visual Arts in 2014. As the curious person that she is, she worked with different creative fields (ceramics, woodcuts, photography, and wedding videos, to name a few) before moving to São Paulo in 2016. There, she studied Illustration at EBAC – Escola Britânica de Artes Criativas (“British School of Creative Arts”) and worked with the artist Paula Juchem until the end of 2017. All her teachers through her academic coursework taught her how the world is diverse, chaotic, and full of ironies and paradoxes – and how this can be beautiful.
Perhaps because of these experiences, or because she grew up in the middle of nature – the south of Brazil is full of weird birds that more yell than sing (5 to 6 am, every day, punctually), ancient trees like Araucárias, and, in the case of her house, chickens and ten other kinds of animals – she developed an interest for everything odd yet daily present in her life. Nonsense, nature, and monsters are her favorite subjects. These interests led her to her first individual exposition, “Hibridism,” that she exhibited in May 2018.
Since the end of 2017, she has been offering her taste for the usual unusual and her experiences to help people represent their thoughts and emotions via traditional and digital illustrations. She has worked with seamless pattern design, children’s picture books, comics, and personal commissions. Currently, she works and lives in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul.
Find her online:
Portfolio: flores.art.br
Instagram: @isadrawingstuff