In Murcia he studied Primary and Secondary, often returning to his beloved Granada for holidays. As soon as he came of age, he emigrated to Switzerland and, taking advantage of the Interrail Pass, undertook trips to Yugoslavia, Greece and Italy. On his return to Murcia, he lived from different jobs, such as graphic design of car air fresheners, translations from German and teaching at the ACYL Academy where, with his sister María Pilar, he later created the ACYL Music Classroom to, for the first time, promote training in Murcia in Jazz, Harmony and Improvisation.

In the mid-80s she began to work as a photographer, receiving commissions from the magazines “Lean” and “Ciudad de Murcia” and some collaborations with her brother Manuel Portillo for the City Council of Murcia and for the follow-up of the Municipal Elections of 1987. At that time he learned editorial layout from Pilar del Sol and María José del Sol and assembly of exhibitions from Eduardo Saro.

In 1987 he went to Madrid, where he worked in the Grupo16 as a model maker in paper magazines widely read at the time, including “Marie Claire”, where he began with a summer substitution and continued on staff for five years, and in “Paisajes desde el tren”. He was part of the editorial group’s new projects team, designing projects for major brands such as Cortefiel or Telefónica. He also collaborated regularly with the magazine “Grandes Viajes”, among others, with graphic editing, design and layout, and photographic reports that he also made for “Interviú”. She also worked for a few months in the magazine “Dunia” with Teresa Arnal.

Back in Murcia, between 1998 and 2006, he taught courses in Formato Formación, where many designers, graphic arts workers and photographers in need of technological updating and professional recycling passed. He was part of the new national volunteering system devised by Greenpeace, receiving the task of coordinating the Murcia Support Group from the beginning and for more than 10 years. And she joined the ANSE Association as a member and volunteer.

In 2001 he co-founded with the copywriter and journalist Jorge Churba the communication agency Churba & Portillo, based in La Alberca and clients of those who bet on the design of their brands, such as the restaurateurs Raimundo González and his son Miguel González Molina, to whom they took all the production and much of the communication of the Raimundo Restaurants. one of them located in the Real Casino de Murcia, a job that Ángeles remembers with special affection among the list, not at all short, of companies to which they provided professional services.

Churba & Portillo have been among the pioneers in offering editions on recycled paper, marketing with ecological and fair trade merchandising and a consultancy in branding and communication especially interesting for social and environmental organizations, such as, for example, Integral, Society for Rural Development, local agency for the development of northwestern Murcia; ANSE, the Association of Naturalists of the Southeast; ACSUR-Las Segovias, at a national level, and also the ethical banking Triodos Bank.

And, to better accompany people with a business idea, they conceived the “Internet Dictionary for Entrepreneurs”, an in-progress and open publication, which is still online.