He was born in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique, in 1960.
Being a self made man, started to draw and to paint more intensely regularly since its adolescence, dedicating itself to watercolor (soluble coffee) from 2003.
The painting of Luís Candeias translates the dichotomy painter-creator who the artist imposes in its workmanships.
Continuous crossing of the intrinsic emotions, the experience and the discovered constants of the daly life, fit the art that flows calmly in the screens of Luís Candeias, in a balance that the painter works in watercolor.