Issue 02 Featured Artist
Nury del Ferro Godoy
ABOUT THE ARTIST . . .
Nury Del Ferro Godoy is an artist of the world. She was born in Santiago de Chile in 1962 and lived there until 1973. In November of that year, Nury’s parents took her and her three sisters to Lima, Perú for approximately 6 months. Then, in the spring of 1974, the family moved to Bucharest, Romania for almost 3 years. The family moved again, and, in November of 1976, they arrived in Lisbon, Portugal where they finally established roots. Eventually, Nury would come to consider Portugal as her second homeland.
In Lisbon, Nury studied Law at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and foreign languages at Cambridge School and Institut Francais. She worked as a lawyer and translator in Cascais, where she resided with her Portuguese husband (an interior designer) and children, until early 2006 when she and her husband moved their family to Santiago de Chile to live temporarily.
After four years in Santiago de Chile, she and her husband decided to set up a family business in interior décor. During this time, Nury had a chance encounter with “art in her life,” as she marvelously describes it. Nury’s love for Portuguese tile art led her to begin creating hand-made Portuguese wood tiles, which she uses in decorative projects, along with recycled wood pieces.
Nury started crafting collages in April of this year after having another chance encounter with art, this time the surrealist technique of collage, as she explored the work of numerous collagists in the online world. Nury continued to practice law at the onset of her experimentation with hand-crafted paper collages, but now she is almost completely dedicated to her art; she never imagined that her collages would become a necessary part of her daily living. Nury always sensed a world full of magic inside of her, and collage art opened up the possibility for her to live in that world.
In Lisbon, Nury studied Law at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa and foreign languages at Cambridge School and Institut Francais. She worked as a lawyer and translator in Cascais, where she resided with her Portuguese husband (an interior designer) and children, until early 2006 when she and her husband moved their family to Santiago de Chile to live temporarily.
After four years in Santiago de Chile, she and her husband decided to set up a family business in interior décor. During this time, Nury had a chance encounter with “art in her life,” as she marvelously describes it. Nury’s love for Portuguese tile art led her to begin creating hand-made Portuguese wood tiles, which she uses in decorative projects, along with recycled wood pieces.
Nury started crafting collages in April of this year after having another chance encounter with art, this time the surrealist technique of collage, as she explored the work of numerous collagists in the online world. Nury continued to practice law at the onset of her experimentation with hand-crafted paper collages, but now she is almost completely dedicated to her art; she never imagined that her collages would become a necessary part of her daily living. Nury always sensed a world full of magic inside of her, and collage art opened up the possibility for her to live in that world.
ABOUT HER WORK . . .
Everything I do has my heart in it, and it is very difficult to let go of my work. I am in each one of my collages—they contain a mixture of all of my feelings, thoughts and dreams.
The themes of my collages, I must say, result from serendipity; I just let collages happen. Of course, they are also related to the kind of images you have in your hands: birds, clocks butterflies, eyes, etc. For me, birds represent freedom, release from different kinds of slavery, everything we silence. Clocks represent the infinite time, which could be of happiness or sadness. Butterflies represent a temporary freedom and the short life of everything we feel, think, and dream. Eyes represent judgment, and also transparency. People with no head represent the idea that what is important is not what you look like, but rather what you feel . . .
Oftentimes, I pick up an image to do something and the result and the work itself is real serendipity, even if I had my own particular idea in mind; it is the inspiration from the magical world that lives inside me, and I let that inspiration guide the work—a mix of tenderness, dreams and sensuality . . . I will be an eternal woman child.
The themes of my collages, I must say, result from serendipity; I just let collages happen. Of course, they are also related to the kind of images you have in your hands: birds, clocks butterflies, eyes, etc. For me, birds represent freedom, release from different kinds of slavery, everything we silence. Clocks represent the infinite time, which could be of happiness or sadness. Butterflies represent a temporary freedom and the short life of everything we feel, think, and dream. Eyes represent judgment, and also transparency. People with no head represent the idea that what is important is not what you look like, but rather what you feel . . .
Oftentimes, I pick up an image to do something and the result and the work itself is real serendipity, even if I had my own particular idea in mind; it is the inspiration from the magical world that lives inside me, and I let that inspiration guide the work—a mix of tenderness, dreams and sensuality . . . I will be an eternal woman child.
