Leonor Saunders

Leonor Saunders (1995, Lisbon) is a Portuguese visual artist whose work is mainly developed through painting, exploring gesture and color.  as central tools in her creative process. A graduate of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Porto, her practice often draws on personal experiences, everyday observations, or memories that become starting points for open-ended compositions without a fixed narrative. 

In 2025, he presented a solo exhibition “100 Waves” at Espaço Audaz in Lisbon—a series of works where the sea was used as a metaphor for internal rhythm and the oscillation between permanence and change. His first solo exhibition, “Dear India” (Atelier 1200, 2017), emerged after a remarkable trip and revealed a more emotional and immediate approach to the pictorial process.

He has participated in several collective exhibitions, including Art in Lima (Ponte de Lima, 2021), Air Current Collective(Lisbon, 2021) and Cascais is our land (São Pedro do Estoril, 2019), maintaining a consistent career and attentive to the contemporary artistic context. His work was also published in FITA Magazine Vol.II, in chapter 07, with the work “Garden Constellation”.

Through painting, Leonor Saunders seeks to create visual places of suspension, where time slows down and the gaze becomes more attentive.

 Solo Exhibitions
100 Waves - Audaz Space, Lisbon, 2025
Dear India - Atelier 1200, Lisbon, 2017

Group Exhibitions

Paredes Meias, AINORI Gallery, Lisbon, 2025
Art In Lima, Ponte de Lima, 2021
Air Current Collective, Lisbon, 2021
Cascais is our Land, São Pedro do Estoril, 2019