Then She Danced With The Storm

Andrea Ehret’s other-worldly paintings draw on her studies of Art and art therapy practice, using intuition, expression and gesture as tools for self-transformation. As in the practice of meditation wherein the student’s intention is to achieve a state of equilibrium, each of Ehret’s paintings follows the flow of energetic light and shade to create a balanced, harmonious whole. In this way Ehret considers the act of painting to be a healing process.

Her intuitive approach is influenced by Eastern philosophy. Ehret considers each painting an expression of an inner world – a meditative process in which the paint is layered with her own internal charges depicting vulnerability, anger, frustration, tenderness. These conflicting emotions coalesce in painterly abstract dreamscapes with the chromatic variation of raw uncut gems wherein the paint – spontaneously and expressively brushed explodes – performing a sort of cosmic dance. As Ehret herself has said of her painting “there is this longing for dream-like experience, where everything is possible.”