Isabel Meyrelles

Isabel Meyrelles is a Portuguese poet and sculptor born in 1929 in Matosinhos. She began studying sculpture in Port and then decided to go to Lisbon, where she became acquainted with artists gathering in cafes. She met personalities such as Mário de Cesariny and Cruzeiro Seixas and witnessed the emergence of the Portuguese Surrealist Group and The Surrealists, an artistic movement to which she was always somehow connected. But the times were hard in Portugal and Meyrelles felt the need to escape. It was then she decided to go to France, a country she identifies with. In Paris, she continued her studies. Apart from sculpture at the Ecole National Supérieure des Beaux-Arts she studied literature at the Sorbonne.