To paint what one feels is already a task for few. But to listen to what a forest feels
is an act of rare communion. It is in this sensitive and profound territory that Vera
Triches’ art now resides. After more than four decades of an acclaimed artistic
journey, she turns to the Amazon—not as a subject, but as a conversation partner.
For Vera, the forest is not a landscape: it is an entity. A living presence that
whispers through an “ancestral silence,” through “birdsong,” and through colors
that translate a “breath of life.”
Born in Francisco Beltrão, Paraná, and living for four decades in Jaraguá do Sul,
Santa Catarina, her work—once shaped by the sobriety of the South—now lets
itself be touched by a new vibration: more visceral, more luminous, emerging
from the restless soul of the tropical forest.
It is fascinating to see how her unique aesthetic, marked by a neo-expressionist
elegance and a “Modiglianesque” style in the elongated necks of her women,
transforms when encountering the soul of the forest. The neck, once a device of
elegance, now seems to stretch to hear the secrets of the forest, connecting the
head (wisdom) to the earth (roots). The female figure, always central to her work,
ceases to be merely an ideal of beauty and becomes the embodiment of
nature’s own strength. In the artist’s words, she becomes a “goddess with strong,
wild roots,” the “serene woman of rivers and roots,” with the capacity to “create,
sustain, and resist.”
This immersion into the forest’s ancestry is a reunion. The Amazonian “breath of
life,” guided by intuition, transforms into spontaneous gestures on the canvas.
“The paints became a woman when I let my heart guide my hand,” she recalls.
Thus was born The Woman of the Forest, like so many others who live in her works:
beings made of color, silence, and resilience.
For Vera, art bears the responsibility to “awaken consciousness,” and her vision of
the Amazon is that of a “sacred sanctuary constantly under threat.” Her paintings
are not only celebrations of beauty but subtle warnings. She does not depict fire
or devastation, but the enchantment that is “on the verge of disappearing.” Her
work becomes a shield, a form of protection born from within, seeking to make
the forest “pulse in the heart of the viewer.”
In the end, Vera Triches’ art on the Amazon is an act of deep communion. It is the
translation of a place that screams in silence under the shadow of threat. It is an
invitation for the audience to feel a mixture of wonder and urgency, to recognize
in the Amazonian woman the beauty and strength of a world we have a duty to
preserve.