Margarida Fleming

Fleming was born in 1988 in São Pedro do Sul in the Viseu district of central Portugal.

At times they are haughty, defiant, focusing all attention on their facial expressions",[4] that "she communicates powerful messages in her work and the interpretations are an excellent starting point for a discussion about what it is, then, to be a woman",[5] and that "the strokes that build up her deeply expressionistic faces are dense, thick and with an element of unrestrained erraticness.

[6] In 2019 Fleming was one of four artists invited, as members of the A Lata Delas street art project, to beautify the walls around the Entrecampos railway station in Lisbon.

In her home town of São Pedro do Sul she was asked to paint a mural on a wall of a former primary school.

[7][8][9][10] In 2022, Fleming illustrated a bilingual anthology of poems by the Portuguese poet Florbela Espanca (1894–1930), which was published as This Sorrow that Lifts Me Up.