Andrea Zvadová is a photographer originally from Bratislava, now living in London. Her photography focuses on portraiture, beauty and still life. In her flower series, she uses the element of colour and visual obstructions and distortions. This creates a photographic hyper-colour space in which dreams and imagination are the main sources for escaping the predictable and everyday. The main intention is to create images that attract the viewer to explore and analyze, finding various details and sub-images. 

"Time spent in nature has always been a kind of meditation for me - turning off the machinery of the brain, turning on all the senses. Since childhood, I have been led to love nature. In childhood, I was surrounded by it, I spent a lot of my free time in it, like most of my generation, without technical conveniences. Today, we spend almost every day in spaces that are miles away from it and our understanding and contact with it is disappearing. Large-format cyanotype is a way back for me to it, to the external elements. Working in nature and in interaction with it is a very personal and intimate process for me, a natural purgatory. My hand-printed photograms are a reminiscence of summer, a feeling of freedom, walks through meadows, blades of grass reaching to the waist, reflections of the sun by the riverbank, flickering lights between the branches of trees. Most of this work is dependent on nature and the seasons, where the sun is paradoxically my darkroom. Later prints were created deviating from the usual procedure under the influence of longer chemical and mechanical destruction. Destruction has its incredible beauty and uniqueness, changing stereotypes and revealing new possibilities."