The full story...

If you had told me two years ago that I would be using wedding art to make a living and capture so many joyous moments, I would have laughed in your face! But life has the most interesting ways of teaching and humbling us, so here we are.

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Born in Minas Gerais, Brazil, it didn't take me long to pick up my first paintbrush. My first ever project was painting my mum a book while she was in hospital, as a way to help her feel better. A few years later, I headed off to art school and completed my undergraduate degrees in fine arts and fashion, before moving to Japan in 2019 to pursue a PhD in social sciences. During this time, I continued to paint and held a private gallery exhibition in the city of Fukuoka- a series of watercolour flower paintings named "Hana-ten". It was also here that I met my future partner in crime, a New Zealander.

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Two years and one pandemic later, I arrived on the sandy shores of this beautiful country. Soon after, I became Louis Vuitton's first New Zealand-based painter, specialising in custom pieces. The attention to details and bespoke nature of the work set the foundation for this venture. One day, a client asked me about wedding ceremony painting, to which my response was "...huh?". After some quick researching, I knew that I wanted to be a wedding painter and that this was something special that I could offer the world. The rest, is history!

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