Abstract Architectural Artist | Pedro Sousa Louro | Award Winning Artist | pslartstudio

ABOUT | Biography | Artist Statement | CV Exhibitions

From a Portuguese aristocratic background, born in Africa in one of the former Portuguese colonies, Angola.

Pedro established his career as an artist in London, graduating with a BA in Fine Art.

Sousa Louro has had numerous careers, including TV presenting and modelling, for almost 17 years but has always lived on drawing cubist images.

Now a full-time artist, Pedro transfers his soul into his studio.

Originally from Portugal, Estoril Cascais moved to the UK over 30 years ago to study his passion for art. He graduated from Chelsea College of Art and Design in 1997 and continued his second degree in 2011 in Abstract Vision and Modern Expressionism at Kensington and Chelsea Art College University.

His work portrays feelings, emotions, and perceptions -consciously and unconsciously- through detailed geometric compositions balanced with lines and shapes. Using multiple techniques in each artwork, his concern lies with creating a dialogue with colour and form rather than over-focusing on the subject matter. Numerous materials, such as textiles, reclaimed wood objects, old journals, and wallpapers, come into play during the artist's process. With canvas or wooden panels for a base, these are combined with rustic deteriorating metal elements, created through a technique he developed using oxidizing copper powders. Combinations of letters and numbers are applied to balance the composition, and finally, each artwork is finished with yacht varnish.

In Pedro’s work, you can see his dialogue with the evolution of colours and geometry despite his preferences for contemporary artists like Francis Bacon and Ben Nicholson. His reminiscence comes from the "neoplasticism" of Mondrian, Robert Rauschenberg, and, in some way, Picasso. Still, the most crucial influence of Pedro’s creativity is Ben Nicholson, where Cubism has been part of his life. Only in the early part of his career, in his more recent research and studies, does he combine Cubism and abstract expressionism in just one practice as he creates his works. He uses Pollock's technique of "dropping" but with the order and sense of Rothko.

In his artistic abstract contemporary modern expressionism and cubist language attempts, he tries not to stick with just one technique because he does not stress regarding the subject matter as long he achieves what he wants in the geometrical creativity and almost in an architectural statement. Pedro focuses only on the compact geometric detailed balance of each composition he designs and concentrates on the final details, such as making each colour interact and building an artist's creative personal architectural statement in his last pieces.

A textural tangibility is immediately evident in Pedro Sousa Louro’s work. Earthy and material-focused, an unassuming beauty is found within the play between dark woods and a muddied palette. Furthermore, geometry plays a crucial role here, as clean white lines converse with blocks of muted colour. There is an almost archival, collage-like approach to applying materials and hues. It is as if Sousa Louro has assumed the archaeologist role, unearthing forgotten layers of history. Educated at Chelsea College of Arts, Sousa Louro is among the most talked-about LGBTQ artists.

Pedro has been featured over the past years in worldwide publications, such as British Vogue, Vanity Fair, House and Garden, Tatler, Wall Street Journal USA, Observica Canada, and other global publications and art magazines.

In 2021, Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa and the former Portuguese Ambassador Manuel Lobo Antunes honoured and congratulated Sousa Louro in person at a state lunch in the London Portugal Embassy for his astonishing work outside Portuguese territory and for representing his country in the art world.

Pedro Sousa Louro has collectors around the globe, including Europe, the Middle East, India, Australia, the US, Russia and South America.

Artist | Statment

"My artworks are all around mixed media mediums and after developing the next idea with the final vision of a painting. I started the craziness of searching and finding materials that I needed. On bases, I use wood panels, canvas, and wood with canvas sheets fixed on them, which I do by myself. My studio realizes all my artworks are framed with mostly only mid-century style. My conscious and unconscious visual perceptions create my paintings, which are the precise language and message I receive from my creative nervous system.

In my compositions, I also use textiles, old wood objects, old journals with prints, and old wallpapers incorporated with rustic deteriorating geometrical metal elements in each piece from a technique I developed over the last few years by oxidizing copper powders. I finalized each composition with combinations of letters and numeric symbols. After trying a few varieties, I found a set of numbers and letters I like seeing together. Horizontally or vertically, I incorporate straight lines in different colours to balance all compositions so I can achieve the level of abstract vision that, for me, is satisfactory, and this is where I find the beauty of the work that I was looking for and eventually make a decision to stop and then the piece is complete. I finished the piece by varnishing it with yacht varnish. I may change the kind of varnish I use in the future. Still, at the moment, I can not find another way to make myself happy and secure enough to decide to let the artwork leave the studio and be exhibited. I'm almost addicted to this particular varnish, and it is a matter of sorting out another solution shortly.

I've never been interested in painting beautiful paintings. The kind of beauty art images that most public viewers feel connected to straightaway by the simple fact that the piece shows the most ordinary and "acceptable" beauty that makes them think less about what they see. I mean the "beauty" that others find straightaway in traditional or ordinary art pieces. I refuse to paint and be an artist of beauty and conventional art, even if my pieces take longer to sell. I aim to develop and predesignate the facts of the creative process I have evolved and practised over the years by focusing on architectural forms and designs from my studies and research, together with abstract geometrical visions from our cosmopolitan living. I make art through my imagination by using geometry for geometry's sake. It is indeed my crucial creative tool and also my way to demonstrate my knowledgeable vision of other angles of beauty with different perspectives and levels to see, maybe accept and also interact with my personal abstractive geometrical visionary eye of beauty or perhaps also to find a new level of beauty through my work."

Thank you ever so much for visiting my website

Exhibitions | CV

Collection | "ANCIENT LAYERS."

2024 | Three press articles in magazines publications | One National Collective Exhibition | One National Art Fair | two International Art Fairs

Two press articles in TATLER MAGAZINE / CONDE NAST January | February | Three international exhibitions, one in Paris, France and two in Madrid Spain

One International press article, CIRCLE QUARTERLY ART REVIEW January edition tenth from Circle Foundation

20th CENTURY Studio | DISNEY Products USA Collaboration with ten artworks as part of the set design locations for the latest blockbuster production.

FLUX EXHIBITION 11th - 14th July Central London UK

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open Studios 9th to 12th May Wimbledon London UK

ARCO MADRID Art fairs week - Hybrid Art Fair 8 March the 7th to 10th Madrid Spain

ARCO MADRID Art fairs week -JUST MAD by Gallery Azur Madrid February 29th to March 29th Madrid Spain

"PARIS CHAPTER" by Gallery Azur Paris- May the 3rd to 28th, 205 Rue Saint Martin Le Marais Paris France

Collection | "LIVING tHE PAINTING LAYERS."

Two press articles on ABODE2 MAGAZINE January | July issues

Three press articles in HOUSE & GARDEN / CONDE NAST September | October | November

One press Article in TATLER MAGAZINE / CONDE NAST December

One Press Article in ARTIST TALK MAGAZINE

One Interview in ARTIST CLOSE UP

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open Studios May 12th to 14th, London

FLUX EXHIBITION | The Flux Review Magazine May 18th to 28th at The Design District London

GALERIA AZUR MADRID April the 20th to May the 22nd Spain

GALERIA AZUR BERLIN July the 21st to August the 20th Germany

SB ART GALLERY Collective exhibition July 28th to 30th London

START ART GLOBAL October Wednesday the 11th to Sunday the 15th at the Saatchi Gallery London

FLUX EXHIBITION Central city venue Piccadilly Road December 7th to the 11th London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open Studios November 16th to 19th Wimbledon London

Collection | "MIX MEDIA PROTOCOLS."

2022 | One International Art Fair at the Saatchi Gallery | One Collective Exhibition | Six Months Solo Artist Exhibition at the Landmark Building the Vintners Place | Two National UK Art Fairs.

Three press articles in BRITISH VOGUE / CONDE NAST March | April | May

Four press articles in HOUSE & GARDEN / CONDE NAST July | August | September | October

Five press articles in VANITY FAIR / CONDE NAST May | June | July | August | October

SOLO EXHIBITION VINTNERS PLACE Landmark Building artful.org.uk November 2021 to May London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open studios May 12th to 15th, London

FLUX EXHIBITION | The FLUX Review Magazine June 16th - 25th at The Design District London

START ART GLOBAL October Wednesday the 12th to Sunday the 16th at the Saatchi Gallery London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open Studios November 17th to 20th, London

Collection | " LAYERS FROM ASTHETICS."

2021 | Five National Collective Exhibitions | One International Art Fair | One Virtual Collective Exhibition | One International Artwork Commissioned | Two Press Gallery Exhibition Artist Mention | One International Magazine Article | One National Art Fair | Six Months Solo Artist Exhibition at the Landmark Building the Vintners Place | Portuguese Governmental TV Channel news mention | One Portuguese Journal news mention | Congratulations by the Portuguese President Marcelo Nuno Duarte Rebelo de Sousa in State Portugal lunch convention for Portuguese international communities in the UK London | Congratulations by the Portuguese Ambassador in the UK Manuel Lobo Antunes in State dinner for Portuguese artists at the Portugal Embassy in London

TOM COX GALLERY 8th June to 4th July London

ABSTRACT AESTHETICS Online Collective Exhibition by FLUX Review Magazine / FLUX Exhibition 22nd March to 23rd April London

THE BRICK LANE GALLERY “ART IN MIND EXHIBITION” Group exhibition June 8th to 21st, London

START ART GLOBAL October 2021 at the Saatchi Gallery London

START + Exhibition extension by START ART GLOBAL Oct 20 to 10 Nov at Knightsbridge The Arx Gallery London

FLUX EXHIBITION from The FLUX Review Magazine November 2021 at The Design District London

SOLO EXHIBITION VINTNERS PLACE London Landmark Building by artful.org.uk November 2021 to May 2022 London

Collection | "DIRECTIONS WITH LAYERS."

COLLECTIVE ART SHOW 16th December - 20th January Van Gogh Art Gallery Madrid Spain

AFFORDABLE ART FAIR MILAN 2020 by Van Gogh Art Gallery - February 6th -9th, Milan Italy

SALONS D'ART CONTEMPORAIN artf3 by Van Gogh Art Gallery 21st to 23rd Aug Monaco

START ART GLOBAL 2020 seventh edition October Saatchi Art Gallery London

COLLECTIVE ART SHOW 27th November - 10th December Van Gogh Art Gallery Madrid Spain

Collection | "MIXING IDENTITIES."

EMERGING ARTIST AWARD 2019 7th February 9th March -Creates Art Magazine- Creates Gallery Gloucester.

FLUX EXHIBITION March 14th - 17th The National Army Museum in Chelsea, London

SUMMER SHOW 2019 July 4th - 12th La Galleria Pall Mall London

FLUX EXHIBITION POP-UP July 7th - 14th Turning Tides Festival Greenwich Peninsula London

KUNST MESSE - LEIPZIG INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR 5th anniversary November Leipzig Germany

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open studios November London

COLLECTIVE ART SHOW 16th December - 20th January Van Gogh Art Gallery Madrid Spain

FLUX EXHIBITION April 2018 at The Chelsea College of Art London

SOLO EXHIBITION VINTNERS PLACE - Landmark Building London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR November Open Studios London

FOCUS LDN Winter Exhibition Menier Gallery November London

FOCUS LDN Old Brompton Gallery Collective London

FLUX EXHIBITION Summer Chelsea College of Art London

PARALLAX INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Chelsea Old Town Hall London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR November Open Studios London UK

VINTNERS PLACE -Landmark Building artful.org.uk November London

FLUX EXHIBITION Old Truman Brewery Collective exhibition London

FOCUS LDN "The Londoner's Compass Collective Strand Gallery London

WITP2016 EMERGING ARTIST EXHIBITION "What's the point?" Collective Strand Gallery London

PARALLAX INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Chelsea Old Town Hall London

UNLEASHED EXHIBITION Menier Gallery London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open studios November London

ARTEMAZE EXHIBITION OXO Tower Wharf Bargehouse London

FLUX EXHIBITION RCA | THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF ARTS. Kensington London

RARE ART EXHIBITION Menier Gallery London

LE DAME ART GALLERY by Cristina Cellini Antonini Meliá White House Hotel London

FLUX EXHIBITION by Lisa Gray The Rag Factory London UK

ARTROOMS 2015 International Art Fair Meliá White House Hotel London

PARALLAX INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Chelsea Old Town Hall London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open studios 14th - 17th November London

CHELSEA ARTISTS CLUB Annual Exhibition Chelsea Old Town Hall king’s road London

CHELSEA BATTERSEA ARTISTS Easter POP UP Battersea Park venue London

PARALLAX INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Chelsea Town Hall London

WIMBLEDON ART FAIR Open studios November London

2013 | One International Art Fair | Two Collective POP-UP Exhibitions | One Catalogue Mention.

PARALLAX INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Chelsea Old town Hall

CHELSEA ARTIST CLUB Annual Exhibition Chelsea Old Town Hall king’s road London

CHELSEA BATTERSEA ARTISTS Christmas POP UP Battersea Park venue London

2012 | One International Art Fair | Two Collective POP-UP Exhibitions| One Catalogue Mention.

PARALLAX INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR Chelsea Old Town Hall London

CHELSEA ARTIST CLUB Annual Exhibition Chelsea Old Town Hall king’s road London