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CRIATURAS E SERES DO IMAGINÁRIO PORTUGUÊS
A VISUAL INTERPRETATION OF POPULAR ORALITY
by Pedro Salvador Mendes
Prefaces by Sofia Batalha, Manuel Calado
Essay by Paulo Borges
Through the illustrations of Pedro Salvador Mendes, the result of extensive research, we gain access the Portuguese cultural imagination and reconnect worlds—those we shared before the separation of races; the visible and the invisible; the unconscious and the conscious; the ancestral and the present.
The many worlds of oral tradition, brought together visually in this book, seek to help preserve the collective memory of places across Portugal, revitalizing the rich, mystical, symbolic, and ancestral roots that gave voice to fears, dreams, experiences, and beliefs, often expressed or passed down through fables, legends, and tales that continue to inhabit our imagination.
A profound understanding of places, rooted in ancestral knowledge and viewed through a contemporary lens, allows us to recognize the importance of their history and rediscover the people and traditions that have been transformed over time. This rich visual content invites us to delve deep into the roots of these places, uncovering correspondences, connections, and new meanings, and discovering new narratives that reveal their potential.
Pedro Salvador Mendes was born in Lisbon in 1973.
He is an illustrator with a Master’s Degree in Scientific and Naturalistic Illustration from IADE, obtained in 2013. He studied illustration and drawing at ARCO and studied painting at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas-Artes. In 2000, he attended the animation film course at CITEN.
In 2002, he completed a postgraduate course in illustration at IADE. In 2003, he completed the scientific illustration course at the Universidade Autónoma de Lisboa, where he was taught by Professor Pedro Salgado. He is a member of the Grupo do Risco (GdR), a group specialising in field sketching and natural history. He has organised major expeditions with Grupo do Risco, including Douro Internacional (2008), Ria Formosa (2009), Amazonia (2010), Caramulo, Donana and Madeira (Laurissilva Forest) (2012) and Morocco (2015).
As a children’s book illustrator, he illustrated Há Fogo na Floresta, by Ana Maria Magalhães and Isabel Alçada, and is the author of Sabu o Tigre Pintor.
He also illustrated the book Édipo uma História Completa, by Carlos Céu e Silva, and the CTT – Correios de Portugal publication Animais do Jardim Zoológico. His drawings of zoo animals served as the basis for his Master’s thesis.
He has created illustrations for personalised labels for Torre do Frade wines, under the Virgo brand. He teaches watercolour and field sketching classes and workshops. He has been an illustrator for Liven since 2015.
