Collection: Julia Cota

Júlia Côta, granddaughter of Domingos Côto, the man who supposedly created the first Barcelos rooster in clay, is today considered by many to be the most creative, most spontaneous and most imaginative of all living Portuguese figurative artists.

She gives free rein to her imagination and creates burlesque figures, religious figures, and animals, reinterpreting them in light of her artistic flair. Her famous, colorful dolls with exaggerated, deeply defined facial expressions are her creation. She also models yokes of oxen, roosters, hens, and devils, examples of thematic and chromatic variety.