Carina Graça is an artist
and writter
who expands AWARENESS
I became a certified occupational therapist in 2012 at the school of health sciences of Alcoitão, in Portugal. Seven months later I moved to the USA because my heart was feeling incomplete. I wanted to explore new ways of therapy, I wanted to learn english… I wanted to help people reach their own joy and fulfilment of being alive through art and expressive arts in
general.
When I was working with elderly people, helping them to be more physically independent, when the process of their physical rehabilitation was successfully completed and they “should” be happy, they weren’t. But I had to leave them anyway. I don't remember not even one case of someone feeling genuinely happy. That was the moment in my life when I understood what I wanted to do and offer to people. I wanted to go deeper. I wanted to find the unique seed there is within each person, so this human being is capable to recignify his or her life by being finally rooted in a totally New World. The world I believe, a world full of possibilities, blessings and healing, and now even of joy and happiness.
How did Ceramic
show up in my Life?
... Inside of a
Greenhouse
My path has been an adventure and quite blessed.
The Universe is always guiding me as it does with you. I'm so grateful that in 2021 this Divine Energy lead me to a land where I finally could be a child... or at least, there, I let my inner child be seen... by me. There I learnt how to be one with nature... For the first time in my life I was sowing... and inside of our greenhouse I was showing to my son how life happens and grows...
Even though I am not living there anymore, I brought its magic with me.
The power of Nature I felt pulsing throught that land... I can still feel now but through a piece of clay inside of my hands...
Back in those days my love for that land and its greenhouse
was so profound that I nurtured this wish of developing my
own flower pots made by clay. I didn't want to see those
plastic flower pots breaking again everywhere while
contaminating the land I loved so much… I wanted to create
out of my own hands a solution that would not be agressive
to the soil. After a two months pottery course, I couldn't stop
myself from exploring clay anymore. I fell in love with this
mineral and all its properties.
Around March 2022, I was not only creating flower pots but
all kinds of simple things such as mugs, bowls, plates, etc.
During that summer a totally new world has just opened
to me.
April 2023, I was able to open my own atelier at Tomar city
and to light my fire... My own kiln was finally ready to cocreate
Magic with me.
My Curriculum
In this document you will find a short description of my education and qualifications,
a glimpse of my “course of life”.
Let's Talk
107 Alexandre Herculano Street.
2300-554 Tomar, Portugal
Email: carina@carinagraca.com
Tel: (00351) 916768979
