Marta Figueira

Marta Figueira is a painter based in Porto, Portugal, a city she says is mostly blue and orange if you squint, and she squints a lot. Before turning to the easel full-time, she earned a degree in Conservation and Restoration from Universidade Católica Portuguesa and worked as an azulejo tile restorer, carefully bringing the city’s glazed facades back to life. That work trained her eye for color. The old tiles still set the standard for her blues, and years of close, patient looking shaped the way she reads light on stone, water, and plaster.

Most mornings Figueira walks down to the Douro before the tour boats start, then climbs back up to her studio with the colors still in her head. She paints in oil on linen with flexible Italian knives, building impressionist, painterly surfaces where thick strokes catch the light. Her subjects are close to home: terracotta rooftops, laundry lines strung between windows, and the boats when the water is calm. These sunny, textured scenes bring warmth to living rooms, kitchens, and entryways, and their blue-and-orange palette pairs easily with coastal or Mediterranean interiors. Below are Figueira’s canvases in our shop, ready to hang.