Roberta Bottcher

Roberta Bottcher, Campinas, 1976, visual artist and psychologist, began her training in drawing and painting in 1990 with a focus on techniques and observation. At the same time, in 1995, she entered the Faculty of Psychology at PUC. For two decades, in her clinical practice, the areas have converged. She introduced art in her psychotherapeutic method to facilitate the understanding of the conflicts experienced by patients, especially used in sessions with children.

In 2010, she decided to leave the countryside, where her affective memories were formed populated by Jatobás and jabuticabeira trees, coffee trees, lakes, milking and cows, witchdesses and prayers, wood cooker and homemade bread, and went to live in São Paulo. There he saw more clearly his creative power and gave emphasis in studies in the fields of history of art and visual arts with special appreciation and dedication to watercolour, coloured pigments and the Expressionist Movement. He worked with Sergio Fingermann, Danielle Noronha, Rubens Matuck, Wagner Zuri, Marcelo Salles, Julie Belfer, among others.

Uniting psychology and visual arts, the artist has managed to broaden her intuitive sensibility within her own universe and in her relationship with her surroundings. Taking advantage of an exaggeration of techniques, she transcends and easily manages to make a record of current observations become memory, past. This confusion of dimensions where the artist transits, is constant and coherent in her works as well as many comings and goings of reflection and, finally, elaborations that end up overflowing on her canvases and papers.

Through his path and works, it is evident that this search for where the human being is, where he defines himself is intrinsic and is not enough. There is always something more, something idealised and unreachable. The encounter would be an illusion. Thus, Roberta in São Paulo is incomplete, the painted subject is dislocated from the metropolis, but in art, with support, colours, water and pigments, inhabits the two places, present and nostalgic rural past.

Por: Roberta Bottcher