Andrea Derani was born and raised in the interior of São Paulo, amidst trees and nature—elements that deeply imprint her visual poetics. Before dedicating herself to the visual arts, she worked as an environmental lawyer, developing activities focused on protecting the knowledge of traditional peoples associated with Brazilian biodiversity.

In 2018, she began studying watercolor through Rudolf Steiner’s method, which integrates the appreciation of sensory exploration with the quality of colors according to Goethe’s theory. This study continued during her postgraduate degree in Art Therapy, completed in 2022 at the Sedes Sapientiae Institute.

Her work emerges from a silent listening to matter. Using handmade papers, broken porcelains, fibers, gold, and resins, the artist explores impermanence and the potency of the reparative gesture. Her series reveal a research into emptiness—not as absence, but as a fertile space for memory and rebirth.

By incorporating millenary techniques into her artistic practice, such as the use of urushi and gold powder, the artist establishes a dialogue between tradition and contemporaneity. This gesture is not merely formal; it resonates with her environmentalist trajectory, reaffirming an ethics oriented toward the valorization of ancestral knowledge, artisanal making, and sustainability.

Between ruin and reconstruction, Andréa proposes a healing, contemplative, and spiritual art that invites the viewer to perceive the beauty contained in the fragile and the impermanent.

She participates in courses and exhibitions, including Crisálida, curated by Paulo Gallina.