About me

Hello! My name is Laura aka olhosvioleta (violet eyes) I’m originally from Portugal but moved to the UK by myself in 2018 when I was 19 years old. I’m currently living in Brighton and working as a waitress but art has always been my passion so I use my free time to work on my small business.
I’m an observer and I find joy illustrating the colours, patterns, details and shapes we can find in nature adapting them to my work and creating worlds of my own. Since I was a child I was obsessed with everything related to fairies and magical worlds and that inspires my creativity until today. 

I moved to the UK to do a Bachelor’s degree in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art that lasted four years. Unfortunately the pandemic hit in the second year leaving me feeling like I didn’t enjoy or completed the course to it’s full potential but I’m immensely proud of the work I did during those years. 

I also completed a three year Fashion Design course in Portugal. I thought it would be a safe option of a career in the art world. I learn a lot of skills that I still use today but at the end I understood that was something I didn’t want to do professionally. 

Through whimsical and detailed illustrations, my art invites you to escape into my world of kindness and mystery with characters that remind us that once we wanted to be fairies.