At her eponymous gallery and studio, Atelier Patricia Sada, artist Sada uses reclaimed materials to create new works, painting her abstracts – a riff on Egon Schiele’s sketches – on ceramics, canvas and wood. Her drawings are easily packaged up for the journey home, as are the doorstops splashed with bright, animated faces. Sada works with wood certified by Brazil’s IBAMA environmental institute and uses pieces washed up on the beach. Over on rua do Comércio, Atelier Patrick Allien is known for its quirky posters and intricate etchings of the natural world.
Address: Rue de Paraia, 70 Centro Historico, Paraty, Brazil
Website: patriciasada.com
Sculpture Culture
After growing up in Provence, Aurelia Cerulei moved here to open her mixed-media gallery, A, a chapel of organised chaos circling a Victorian wrought-iron staircase. For her collage-sculptures, she turns broken pieces of crockery into textured maps, stitched together with thick red thread. Around the corner is Studio Bananal, run by Brazilian artists Fernando Fernandes and Sergio Atilano, selling free-standing pieces such as blocks of eroded driftwood washed in cobalt blue.
Address: Rue Cel. José Luiz, 16 - Centro Histórico, Paraty - RJ, 23970-000, Brazil
Website: studiobananal.com