Fiadeiro has traveled and sketched around West African countries since moving to Mauritania in 2004, staying with local families and sharing their daily life. In January 2008 she spent five weeks in the Saharawi refugee camps in Tindouf, Algeria, sketching the daily life of the women in the camps. Fiadeiro studied at Falmouth School of Arts, Cornwall and has a degree in Fine Arts from Wimbledon School of Arts in London. (See Isabel's work: blog, flickr)