Aline Gaiad (b. 1979) is a London based painter. Aline was raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil into a family of artists and collectors. She began her early career as a photojournalist, travelling her home country and developing her photographic eye. Aline Gaiad is known for her abstract, figurative paintings and bold gestural marks that are always present in her work. Her approach to art is extremely intuitive and raw.  She creates from her day to day life her own version of reality, her own dimensions, her own colour, texture and patterns. Objects from her life and nature have been constant themes in her paintings. Aline works mainly with acrylics, favouring the immediacy of this medium for the process of building layers, and also turns to oil sticks and pastels. Adding collage to her paintings gives them texture and creates intriguing shadows which draw the viewer in.