Andrea Beloff Fine Art

Sat May 18th: Opening Reception for the Love and Abundance Series

Andrea Beloff has made a career as an Artist. She graduated in Fine Art from UCSB. She explored Europe while spending a year in Venice, Italy at the Accademia di Belle Arti working under the influencial abstract painter, Emilio Vedova. She thought she was making a career in abstract oil paintings and miniature abstact watercolors, until she discovered in her final year back at UCSB, the Traditional Japanese Papermaking Technique which she learned from a Contemporary Master Papermaker, Hiromi Katayama. But first, she redefined the technique in her own unique approach and like a bullet set her career in a non-stop forward motion.

For twenty two years and with the influence of her Brasilian upbringing, her tropical landscapes created a popular long standing theme, Escape to Paradise. She has successfully shared this inspiration with the world, touching many people personally in her studio and at some of the top Art Festivals in California as well as Florida and New York.

In the last five year's, Andrea's life and art are making significant changes. There is renewed strength, passion and emotion in her new works and she is now residing in Miami. Along the path of transformation, she is using her art to deepen her means of self expression and created Paint Your Heart Out workshops to help adults and teens also learn to express thru art. She is inspired by a renewed sense of love and truth as well as her usual love of travel, beauty, spirit and simple living.

Her technique continues to be collage using her own handmade papers but she is also adding works that include watercolor and oil painting. The difference that is now surfacing in her work is in a bolder and more confident approach. The use of color is intensified and the subjects coincide with current projects and personal influences. She is also adding other materials and playing with even more dimension. She discovered the art of wrapping copper wired shapes with her paper and adding elements that make the art pop out.