Anabela Ferreira (b. 1996) is an artist living and working in Portugal. In 2024, she completed the Online Drawing Development Year at the Royal Drawing School, where she expanded her drawing practice through technical training, art history, and studio-based methodologies.

Her practice explores the space between observation, memory and imagination. Working through drawing, she brings together figures, objects, interiors and fragments of everyday life, allowing them to shift between the familiar and the imagined. Rather than following a fixed narrative, her drawings develop through intuitive associations. Through this process, ordinary spaces and objects become places for exploring presence, absense and the different ways we experience the world around us.

Anabela holds a BA in Communication Design from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Lisbon and previously worked as a graphic designer. Alongside her studio practice, she shares her creative process on YouTube, where she documents her work and teaches art classes for all levels.

Education
2024 – Online Drawing Development Year, Royal Drawing School, London (Online)
2018 – BA in Communication Design, Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal

Residencies
2026 - Three-month Artist Residency at Casa Varela, Portugal

Selected Exhibitions

2026 - Deviam Ter Sido Trevos (Should Have Been Clovers), Solo Exhibition, Casa Varela, Portugal
2025 – Drawing Without Borders, Group Exhibition, Royal Drawing School Gallery, London