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Tell us a little about you and what you do besides Etsy. First I live in Portugal, my work began many years ago before I even meet “ETSY”! I worked with my husband (he is an architect) for many years .We have an atelier of handamde furniture, that he draws (each piece), builts and after that I paint! We are a pefect match! We also sell my atelier crafts, and interior acessories like abat.jours, lamps, paintings,...everything my imagination have the need to create!. We begun making furniture for our house, specific for our kids and after that we never stopped until today. Our new project is about leaving the city and built a house/atelier in the countryside that is going to be the perfect place for us to work and exhibit our pieces. The internet “story” began because we have the need to show our work with quality worldwide independently from shops and other places that sell our work but in my point of view they don ́t catch the spirit and the soul of our project, so, I wanted to show it myself. I had already created many blogs until I arrived here were i ́m standing now but always in need to do it better!. Like a creative process!. Etsy came at the end because we saw that 70‰ of our visitors were from USA and other countries. This happens to be a community that shares the sames goals, professional ones, and that visits each other everyday to see the news, like a big online gallery. When did art/illustration become part of your life? My art has always been part of my life. My father works with classical music, my broother draws, my sister too, my grandmother taught us to draw hats...it ́s everything that cames with the “package” :-). But still I
dedicated myself to illustration and paint professionally I think 10 years ago and I can ́t stop, I need to paint, it ́s the way I have to express some feelings and the things I see all around me everyday! It ́s a need!. I also like to sell my work and go a head to another project! In my house we breath art, it ́s our work, our life, our children´s and our feelings! I have many books, paintings...I have my walls full, music always playing...kids drawing all around the house. What is the inspiration behind your work? The inspirations behind my work are specially about people´s feelings, motherhood, old people, the needs of life, the strong feelings life has behind the everyday life, that we are so bussy that we usually can ́t see! For me that is so impotant.Things that worry me, things that make me happy, people I Iove, memories ...and of course, music, what happens in the word everyday, fantastic people, brillant ideas,..MUSIC, magazines, art galleries, imagination! Which technique do you use the most in your work? I always use acrylic paints with pieces of paper and fabrics!, paper past, I always sew (I can ́t live without a sewing machine). Which technique would you like to learn or that you already know but jus haven ́t had the opportunity to apply to your work? Not specially a technique but the scale I use, I want to do it bigger and stronger! More seriously, I want to breath it! If you understand what I mean!? I also want to develop papier maché in a different scale too! More like sculpture! I want to learn to play chello!!!, and cook chinese food!, that ́s a dream! Why do you think the piece you chose is so representative of your work? I choose a frame, first because I never saw anyone that makes a similiar work! Everybody identifies immediatly my frames with me! I love to make them because they are usually a very important focal point in interior decoration and I also love mirrors, because they make a space bigger and they bring good luck! I ́m always making them by order or not! Please tell us something we would be surprised to know about you. Hummm, that could be a secret!!:-). I think I ́m lazy sometimes, I struggle against it, I feel I must study more to have a better result in my work! CONTACT INFO GRAÇA PAZ SHOP http://www.xtmoveis.etsy.com SITE http://www.atelierxt.com/ BLOG http://atelierxt.tumblr.com/ INTERVIEW WITH XTMOVEIS 33