Maria Andrievskaya (b.1993) is a painter based between London and Cyprus. Her practice explores the inner landscape and painting as a form of sensing rather than seeing, shaped in part by her experience of visual snow syndrome. She begins with an empty surface, a place of uncertainty, attention and trust. The act of painting unfolds in brief, concentrated bursts, surrounded by long periods of looking and waiting. She follows what emerges and allows intuition, memory and bodily sensation to lead when vision begins to falter.

The work is rooted in colour intensity and the preparation of the surface. She makes her own grounds and handmade emulsions, forming a surface that feels active and responsive. Once layered with oil and pigment, the painting becomes a terrain shaped by touch, pressure and time. She thinks of the surface as a lived space, attentive to atmosphere, light and duration.

For Andrievskaya, painting is a quiet act of attention and a space for what cannot be easily named. The work invites slow engagement that asks a viewer to meet it through their own inner experience. This is a space of immersive colour.