This is definitely our longest episode to date, but it’s simply packed with wonderful conversation with the always inspiring Andrea Ehret! Andrea shared openly about the connection with her Slovak roots, family, and natural environment, collaborations with other artists in Prague and around the world, making artist residencies work, performance art that combines dance, music, poetry, and painting, even her energising experience working with a London gallery. Valentine and Andrea also share heartfelt, raw conversation about their experiences managing artistic life with international musician partners, charity work, and so much more! Andrea Ehret's ethereal paintings draw on her studies of Art and Art Therapy practice, using intuition, expression and gesture as tools for self-transformation. Each of Ehret's paintings follows the flow of energetic light and shade to create a balanced, harmonious, meditative 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 her emotions and feelings. These conflicting emotions coalesce in painterly abstract creating cosmic dreamscapes. Each painting offering a dream-like experience. Andrea Ehret studied at Prešovská Univerzita in Slovakia and Jan Evangelista Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, in the Czech Republic. She has been included in numerous exhibitions in US, NYC,  UK, London, Sweden, The Netherlands, Germany, Prague and Italy and collected heavily internationally.  Ehret has also been the recipient of awards including The Red Dot Miami Award , GlobalArt Awards Tokyo, Caravaggio International Prize Master of Art, Milan , etc.  Also in 2021 & 2022 she was selected as an artist-in-residence at Chateau d'Orquevaux, France as part of the Denis Diderot Grant Award.  19 solo shows, international exposure. Her art works are part of private collections all around the world; e.g. Netherlands, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates, Australia, Russia, Slovenia, Italy, Spain, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany, USA, etc. www.instagram.com/andreacircles www.instagram.com/artmumseurope www.andreaehret.com www.artmumseurope.org www.instagram.com/artmumsunited www.artmumsunited.com Support the show