Profile

José Projecto

From a very early age, José Projecto revealed his motivation for representing and painting what surrounded him and feeling a special inclination for Comics. He started by illustrating magazines and editing short stories. He published his first album, entitled Giraldo-o-sem-pavor, in 1984. While creating the album, its illustrations meticulously detailed aspects of the fauna and landscapes that involved their personalities. This was the beginning of his career as illustrator and naturalist painter.
In the next years he intensified his field studies aimed at reproducing detailed elements of our natural life. Having delayed his graduation from the high school of arts, which he started in 1982, he worked as an illustrator for the current Institute for Nature Conservation. At the same time he started to work with the Post Offices of Portugal in the Technology and Communications department, illustrating diverse philatelic originals for Portugal, Madeira, Azores, Angola and Guinea-Bissau. In 1992, the set of Portuguese stamps which he completed, celebrating the ECO 92 conference of the United Nations, , received an international award for the most beautiful stamp dedicated to the environment.
In 2005 he was distinguished with Évora (Portugal) silver medal for the cultural and environmental contribution of his work.
Among the institutions that he has provided artwork for includes, the Council of Europe, WWF (World Wildlife Fund), Parc Naturel des Ecrins, Birdlife International, EBCC (European Breeding Birds), FAPAS (Fundo para a Protecção dos Animais Selvagens) and recently, ANF (Artists for Nature Foundation). Much of his work is directed towards environmental education.
Currently, besides illustrating, he continues painting wonderful scenes of our fauna in which he succeeds, through the realism of his work, to celebrate the splendour of nature, which regrettably is absent in many minds.

Special Achievements:

• EXHIBITIONS
  1986 - Sall-River - Bristol Community U.S.A.: Collective sample with colleagues of the ESBAL .
  
  1989 - Forum Picoas Gallery in Lisbon: Individual exhibition. Portugal Bird’s of Prey.
  
  1990 - Pac Naturel des Ecrins in France: Collective sample “Des Artistes de la Nature I”.
  
  1995 - Foundation of Communications Gallery in Lisbon.
  
  1998 - EXPO.98: Individual exhibition in ICN stand.
  
  2002 – QDL-Quinta do Lago: Collective exhibition organized by ANF-Artists for Nature Foundation.
  
   
• AWARDS
  1992- The set of Portuguese stamps celebrating the Conference of the United Nations on the Environment and Development, (ECO 92), by Jose Projecto, received an international award- ASIAGO of Philatelic Art for the most beautiful stamp of the year 1992, dedicated to the environment.
  
  2005 - Distinguished with Évora (Portugal) silver medal for the cultural and environmental contribution of his work.

Collections:

• Correios de Portugal
  More than 100 Philatelic originals in the Foundation for Communications Museum archive.
   

Publications:

• PUBLICATIONS 
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  1986/2004 – Several Philatelic emissions for the Post offices of Portugal, Madeira, Azores, Angola and Guiné-Bissau.
  
  1988 - WWF: Edition of FDC’s about the Iberian Lynx.
  Edition for the European Year of the Environment.
  
  1992 - Post offices of Portugal: Philatelic emission about ECO 92.
  
  1993 - FAPAS: Contribution in the edition of first guide of Birds of Portugal.
  
  1996 - Post offices of Portugal: Edition of a book about all the philatelists subjects that developed for the conservation of nature in Portugal.
  
  1997 - EBCC: Collaborates in the edition of the book. The European Breeding Birds.
  
  1998 - Edition of one guide on. Birds of Alentejo Coast.
  
  2003 – Participation in the edition about QDL meeting organized by ANF-Artists for Nature Foundation.