AGA is a gallery within a working art academy
AGA
live beyond the frame.
A FIRST EXHIBITION
Founded by artist and educator Julia Gurchenkova, it brings exhibitions into a setting where people draw, paint, experiment with materials and develop their own practice.
Our starting point is the artist’s work: the choices of subject, colour, form and technique that give each piece its character. Exhibitions offer a way to explore those choices, while the academy provides opportunities to put ideas into practice.
We welcome visitors, students, artists and collectors to share in this exchange.
Throughout the art evenings, a watercolour artist will move through the gallery, capturing impressions of guests in a few expressive brushstrokes — colour, silhouette, gesture. No posing required. A small number of these personal works will be available to take home.
An evening to step slowly into. To listen, look, and be looked at — by brush, by colour, by the room itself.
four practices, one evening
The exhibition brings together four distinct painters — one working in layered abstraction, one in the patient tradition of botanical watercolour — and invites a quiet conversation between them.
Abstract · Painter
Layered abstraction · Acrylic on canvas
Pauline's work moves through fields of colour that seem to hold weather and memory at once — surfaces built slowly, then broken open. Meet her in person during the evening; she will be present throughout.
"I want the painting to feel like it just remembered something."
Watercolour · Botanical
Floral watercolours · Paper, pigment, patience
Working in a tradition that reaches back through centuries of botanical observation, Ekaterina Sava paints flowers as though they are being looked at properly for the first time. Delicate, exact, and quietly alive.
"A flower does not need much from the painter — only attention."
How the evening unfolds
Live impression
A watercolour artist moves through the gallery, capturing guests in colour, silhouette, and gesture. No posing. A limited number of these personal works can be taken home.
Sparkling wine & canapés
Glass in hand, the room settles. A chance to meet Pauline, to look at the work properly, and to let the conversation begin at its own pace.
The dialogue between the works
Discover the connections between oil and acrylic abstraction and floral watercolours — two practices that, on the surface, have nothing in common, and underneath, almost everything.
Original works for purchase
Original artworks will be available throughout the evening, with prices in the range of approximately €1,000–€2,500.
Your host
Founder of Algarve Arts Academy, Julia will guide you through the connections between the works on view — the threads that run from one painter's hand to the other's.
Where & when
AGA sits in Fonte Santa, a quiet pocket of the Algarve where the light is particular and the evenings arrive slowly. Easy to reach, worth the journey.
Places are limited. Your reservation is complete only once you have received our confirmation by email.
Reserve your place
A short form. We will reply with the confirmed date, directions to Fonte Santa, and anything else you need for the evening.
Two seats, one reservation. You and a guest are warmly invited. Please indicate below whether you will attend alone or together.
A few details, and the room is yours.
Algarve Gallery of Arts
We look forward to welcoming you
into the world of AGA.
A private evening by invitation— Fonte Santa, Algarve
