Sandra Elisabeth Nobre is a Swedish-born artist based in Portugal, creating a visual universe where women, symbols, and objects coexist like chapters of the same book. Her practice is rooted in a deep fascination for the feminine - timeless, delicate yet powerful, but expands into a wider cosmos of vessels, flowers, animals, and ornamental motifs. These elements appear as fragments of the same world: sometimes the woman is present as a central figure, other times her presence is felt through the objects and creatures that surround her.

Drawing inspiration from history, architecture, fabrics, and interior ornamentation, Nobre’s paintings carry the textures of time. Decorative patterns, botanical forms, and geometric borders weave together with mythological and metaphysical reflection, creating works that feel both intimate and iconic.

At the core of her practice lies an exploration of symbolism. Each painting - whether it portrays a woman, a solitary vessel, or an animal - is treated as an icon, a fragment of her personal mythology. Through a refined palette of earthy and muted tones and shimmering gold, she invites the viewer into a world where elegance meets mystery, and where the ordinary transforms into the sacred.

Born in 1987 in Sweden, Nobre moved to Portugal in 2007, where she later met her husband and artist partner, Marco Nobre. Before fully devoting herself to painting, she founded a clothing brand based on her artworks and won a national design competition with Lindex and the Pink Ribbon Foundation, which brought her to the gala in Stockholm. Over the years, she has received several art prizes, and since 2017 she has worked full-time as a painter. Today, she lives and creates in southern Portugal, together with Marco, from their small studio-home.