Vera Luís was born in 1969. In 1987 she left Portugal for the U.S.S.R. to take a Preparatory Course
at Surikov, Moscow State Institute of the Arts, where she studied drawing, painting and learned the Russian language. After that she continued her studies at the Faculty of Monumental-Decorative and Applied Arts, Stroganov Moscow University of Arts and Industry. She returned home in 1993 with a five-year degree in Graphic Design.

She has been working as a graphic designer and does try to stretch her free time to immerse herself in scientific illustration, drawing and painting — not necessarily in that order.

During a two-year break from design, in 2002 she took a Scientific Illustration course taught by the scientific illustrator Pedro Salgado, at ar.co. She also took the course ‘Introduction to Drawing’ at Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes (National Society of Fine Arts), in Lisbon.

In 2004 she served as an apprentice on Archaeological Illustration at the City Museum, Lisbon.

She lives in Lisbon with her 3 cats, Mimi, Cookie and Xica.

Works

Scientific Illustration
Vitis vinifera, L. botanical plate – Illustration for the book ‘O Vinho e a Vinha em Portugal’ published
by Syngenta/Verbo Publishing House.

Illustration of archaeological objects.
Client: Associação Cultural Desportiva e Recreativa de Freixo de Numão (Foz Côa).

Botanical illustration for a natural product package.
Client: Purple - Agência de Design, Lda.

Painting
Exhibition at Escudero Art Gallery, 2–28 March 2006.

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