Artist and designer from Portugal. Original abstract art.

Colour is my language.

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New Collection

Garden Canvas Series

Original paintings born from nature, instinct, and the spaces in between. Water, colour, movement, felt before they were painted.

New Collection Garden - Canvas edition

Rivers I & II Rivers I & II
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Rivers I & II
€1,150.00

100×100cm each. Sold as a set.
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Shipping: Price includes delivery to any location in Portugal only 🇵🇹
Outside Portugal, please contact me.

Two canvases, one river. Painted side by side on the studio floor — barefoot, brush in hand — Rivers I & II were born together, each one responding to the other as the work moved.

The inspiration was water in motion: the curl of a current, algae bending under the flow, the way a river never moves in a straight line. Blues spiral. Greens settle and drift. Flashes of orange and yellow rise like light hitting the surface.

Colors may vary slightly from screen — photographed under natural light in the studio.

Giverny Giverny
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Giverny
€690.00

100×155cm
Shipping: Price includes delivery to any location in Portugal only 🇵🇹
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas


I painted this series while reading Kelly Grovier's "The Art of Color", and it changed everything about how I saw the canvas. Chromatic Garden Studies came out of that obsession with color relationships, inspired by Monet's water gardens in Giverny. I wanted to feel the garden more than paint it, layering golds, tangerines, and crimsons against fields of sage, deep green, and soft blue, letting complementary pairs do the work of light. Each piece is improvised, a conversation between colors, I was falling in love with.

Tags Giverny, Monet inspired art, original abstract painting, colorful abstract art, garden painting, expressive painting, contemporary abstract, original canvas art, colorful wall art, abstract wall art

Saudade Saudade
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Saudade
€750.00

150×100cm
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

Shipping: Price includes delivery to any location in Portugal 🇵🇹
Outside Portugal, please contact me.


Painted without intention, only gesture, colour, instinct. Born in the wake of a Monet-inspired work, this painting broke free from it: where there was softness, here there is eruption. Kandinsky's concept of "inner necessity", the idea that true art emerges from an impulse that cannot be explained, only felt — guided the hand while the mind stayed silent.

Saudade — a Portuguese word with no direct translation, a longing for something you can't quite name — runs through the work. Not sadness. Not joy. Something in between, moving.

Note: Colors may vary slightly from photos, as each image is captured under natural studio light.

Meadowdream
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Meadowdream
€345.00

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70x100cm - (Ships to Portugal Only) Cotton finish
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas

unframed

Meadowdream came from a need to paint stillness. Gentle greens and soft blues build slowly across the canvas, layered with small textural details that emerge like grass, light, and air moving together. It is not a literal meadow, it is the feeling of one. The calm of being somewhere unhurried, where colour breathes.

Painted with acrylic and mixed media on cotton canvas, this piece invites the viewer to slow down. It works beautifully in living spaces, bedrooms, or any room that needs a quiet, grounding presence.

4.8 stars by 300 customers

Olá, Margarida. Eu não vi o trabalho ao vivo, foi direto para Londres. Uma oferta para minha filha. Ela adorou! Já estão colocados e ficaram perfeitos. Obrigada!

— Rosa Encarnação

No matter the size of the painting the magic and heart that each of Margarida’s pieces has is evident even through the screen but when you have them in your hands you can see so much more behind each stroke and color: stories, songs and lots of love. Buying from Margarida is the gift that keeps on giving. Not the first and definitely not the last

— Monique Sainz

(…) "Assim que o vi, senti-me envolvida. Elevada. Levou-me para o mar sem sair do lugar. Assim que chegou, senti que havia uma parede a chamar por ele." (…)

— Isabel Novais

Scarves Collection

Wear the art

The same colours I put on canvas, I put on silk. Each scarf is 100% silk, made locally in Portugal, and painted as its own original piece. No two are identical.

Nº4 Back to the roots
€69.00

100% silk | 90 x 90cm

Discover The Enchantress silk scarf — a bold, 100% silk design inspired by the expressive, sensual phase of the menstrual cycle. Wear your truth. 🌕

Every LA QUE SABE scarf is carefully printed and locally made in Portugal. They're light and easy to wear, working as the perfect companions for chilly mornings or mild evenings.

Nº1 Black Sea Salt
€69.00

100% SILK | 90 X 90CM

The first phase of a woman’s cycle — 🌑 The Crone – Wisdom. Stillness. Vision.
A sacred scarf for your inner winter.

Every LA QUE SABE scarf is carefully printed and locally made in Portugal. They're light and easy to wear, working as the perfect companions for chilly mornings or mild evenings.

Nº2 Energising Aura
€69.00

100% silk | 90 x 90cm

Shop The Maiden silk scarf — a 100% silk, hand-painted design inspired by the spring phase of the menstrual cycle. Celebrate intuition, creativity, and new beginnings. 🌸

Every LA QUE SABE scarf is carefully printed and locally made in Portugal. They're light and easy to wear, working as the perfect companions for chilly mornings or mild evenings.

Nº 3 Awareness
€69.00

100% silk | 90 x 90cm

Explore The Mother silk scarf, inspired by the nurturing, fertile energy of the menstrual cycle's summer phase. 100% silk, original abstract design. 🌺

Every LA QUE SABE scarf is carefully printed and locally made in Portugal. They're light and easy to wear, working as the perfect companions for chilly mornings or mild evenings.

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Who

I'm Margarida. Brand designer for 9 years, painter since always. The atelier is where colour exists without rules.

Colour is my language.  And I've been speaking it my whole life,  as a designer and as a painter, as someone who believes the right colour in the right room can change how you feel in it. Original abstract art, handmade in Portugal.
Colour is my language.  And I've been speaking it my whole life,  as a designer and as a painter, as someone who believes the right colour in the right room can change how you feel in it. Original abstract art, handmade in Portugal.
Colour is my language.  And I've been speaking it my whole life,  as a designer and as a painter, as someone who believes the right colour in the right room can change how you feel in it. Original abstract art, handmade in Portugal.
Colour is my language.  And I've been speaking it my whole life,  as a designer and as a painter, as someone who believes the right colour in the right room can change how you feel in it. Original abstract art, handmade in Portugal.
Colour is my language.  And I've been speaking it my whole life,  as a designer and as a painter, as someone who believes the right colour in the right room can change how you feel in it. Original abstract art, handmade in Portugal.