The notebooks on display are graphic souvenirs from the urban sketching project that has arrived in Torrão. Tables display these precious pages that have traveled many miles. The artist’s main objective is action, painting/drawing/writing at first sight. He records places, people, objects, details as a way to explore differences. Arriving in the village of Torrão after traveling the iconic N2 in its entirety, Gramaxo involves the community in several moments of co-creation, on the streets and at the AQUI space. On the walls, a selection of vibrant and lively pages, a print collection of postcards. For Bernardo Gramaxo, visual drawing “is not just drawing, but a connection with us and what surrounds us. A captured a moment in space and time.”

Bernardo Gramaxo is an illustrator and urban sketcher. Over the course of 20 years, he’s compiled a vast collection of notebooks and sketchbooks. These original illustrations were created in various places around the world. Gramaxo celebrates visual drawing and the stories that each drawing carries. His main mediums are pen, paint, and gouache. He takes particular pleasure in sharing his passion in workshops and seminars and meetings, inviting others to draw the world.