Luiz de Souza, 39, plastic artist, born in Lauro Müller, Santa Catarina, Brazil and established in Curitiba, Brazil, since 1995. An intuitive and self-taught person has been dedicated to the drawing since infancy, when he received his first awards. He worked as an illustrator with the technique of penalty peak. In 1997 he started oil painting, participating in group exhibitions and the same year, held his first personal exhibition. In the following years, he participated in some personal exhibition, and some group exhibitions and Art Shows and received various awards.

His early influences were the Renaissancist and the Pre-Raphaelite painters. From his interest in the surrealist artists, he assimilated techniques and was influenced of Magritte, De Chirico, Dali and Campanella. He developed several techniques, re-interpreting and re-inventing concepts, creating an original approach mixing the some influences that have placed his workmanship in an atemporal context