Ana Vidigal

After attending a Roman Catholic school, she studied painting at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and graduated in 1984.

In 1989 she studied metal engraving with Bartolomeu Cid dos Santos at the Casa das Artes de Tavira in the Algarve region of Portugal.

[6] In 1997, at the invitation of the Portuguese Institute of Architectural Heritage, she created a porcelain cup as part of the project "An Artist, a Monument".

In 1998–1999, Vidigal was resident painter at the Museum of Contemporary Art, situated in the Fort of São Tiago in Funchal, capital of Madeira.

The following year, she was selected by the International Association of Art Critics (AICA) to be one of eleven artists producing a collection of paintings dealing with the theme of the letter of Pêro Vaz de Caminha, which was a letter of 1500 sent to King Manuel I of Portugal, describing the newly discovered Brazil.