Zabel Moita

Zabel Moita was born in 1940, in Aljezur, residing in the old zone of the same villa, future historical center. She owns the Gallery "Manusfactum", exhibition and sales, together with her atelier in the Street April 25, n.º 130, on the south end of the poetic village where she was born, defends and very much loves.

She began her artistic activity as an interior decorator, as a poet, a stylist and cultivating with care the gastronomy, not just the regional but as well the making of new sweets which were already shown on TV.

The marriage with the artist Ernesto Silva could have influenced her ceramic art, that is revealed in the first rehearsals with small feminine sculptures, poeticly nicknamed as "the amazings".

The course of her activity transformed later in themes of life and of living to which she joined the mythical theme of Christ's figurative celebration. There are notable stables, last dinners and crucifieds.
If the first are sculptural groups of rare beauty, the crucifieds possess a poetic figuration of the dilation of the carnations and for the exhibition of the sudarium. She cultivates with special affection the franciscan friar's interpretation of Santo António from Lisbon, of the inherent poetry to the illustration and of his companion's charm, the Menino Jesus.

Abstraction also dominates her art, and it is vulgar they appear in the interpretations like "discouragement", "anguish", "incognito", "vain", "anything", "renewal", "rests of war" ...or an unreal existence of "witches" and "socerers" in the black atmosphere of a macabre dance.

The poetic inspiration of her creations are often not only accompanied by an interpretative poem but of inspiring waves that allows a dialogue among the rhyme, the feeling and the formal and chromatic expression. The used palette possesses tonalities of her own poetry. The understanding circle, facilitated by these reasons appears in logical appreciation, as to say, in judgements of the value of her art.