Your full name Jorge Manuel Ribeiro Arago, was born in the land of Angola, where he lived part of his teens, after coming to Lisbon, where he completed his studies, graduating in the area of ??social sciences by the UTL . His professional life was all done in the private sector in Portugal and abroad in the area of ??human resources, as coach, teacher, manager and consultant later. But the fine arts, where the shooting took place, were always present in the free time of your life as well as sport. Huns years to this date, when his career has allowed, is dedicated to the whole soul and body painting. Self-taught, painting with regularity and persistence, and has had many friends in the field of fine arts, saying that with them, let them learn and learn and the will to mixing paints. Two names recalls the encouragement that you sent and brought him to take up brushes: Master Correia Martins and Arthur Bual. The versatility in realize, looking at different themes that it addresses etcnicas experiments, a constant search for beauty, show your creativity and desire to find a way of being in own painting, look at his drawings on paper made from bar ink. Recalls how his masters in painting Carlos Duarte de Almeida and Edoardo Gioia, Italian painter, in passing through Lisbon who learned much; the latest teachings, technicians and aesthetical, friend, plastic artist Carlos Milhais. Today in PT Carcavelos, in Trassovivo, and his studio of a friend, sharing space with many more who like to paint. Lisbon, 20 January 2008 Exhibition 2001 INDIVIDUAL Batiment Jean Monnet, Luxembourg 2002 Shop 212, Centro Comercial de Carcavelos, Carcavelos 2006 illus - Royal Palace Hotel, Lisbon AP - Fashion Atelier , Lisbon 2007 space Galera, Cascais COLLECTIVE Exhibition 2003 Montoya & Amorim, Lisbon 2004 Eight Months Painting Palace Hotel Real, Lisbon 2005 Monteleite Artists - Musical Rec Soc Carcavelos, Carcavelos 2006 Town Board Artists Monteleite Carcavelos, Carcavelos Different Worlds Parish of Estoril, S. Joo Estoril TrassoVivo 2006 Winter Workshop Atelier Fine Arts, Carcavelos Titan Hibiscus Artists - Art Gallery, Lisbon 2007 Exhibition of Painting Parish of Carcavelos, Carcavelos Hibiscus - Gallery Arts South of the Equator Lisbon, Cascais 2008 Different Worlds - Parish of Carcavelos, Carcavelos Eleven Painters Eleven Paintings Jamaica Caf Carcavelos