In addition to hit’s main business, Matiz Pombalina Bar assumes cultural goals promoting and spreading works and artists, having been associated from the first moment to a set of mandatory references of the contemporary art.

Raquel Martins is one of the most recognized and respected references in the world of the plastic arts of our time. She explores hers enormous talent centered in the figurative painting, passing in the almost suggestive abstract form, to a graphic stylized treatment.  

Clive Cook was born in 1955 in Chorley Lancashire.
Studied at Hammersmith school of Art and Design, London and Trent Polytechnic, Nottingham.
He moved from Cambridge to live in Portugal in 1982, spending some years renovating an old property in the village of Figueira on the western Algarve where his private gallery can be found.

He has exhibited extensively during his time in Portugal.

Matiz Pombalina Bar is proud to exhibit some samples of artist’s surrender to the enchantments of the main Lisbon’s ex libris.