Darel Valença Lins was a profound and restless artist. Born in 1924 in Palmares, a rural region of Pernambuco, he revealed his talent so early that, at thirteen, he began working as an apprentice technical draftsman at the Catende Sugar Mill. This experience, coupled with a regime that was practically slave-owning, would mark the young artist's life, imbuing his future work with a tragic dimension—which is its strength. From adolescence, he understood that art was, for him, an imperative means of expression, and that this compulsion to create would never abandon him.

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