Skopje, 9 April 2025 (MIA) — Music composer turned painter Jana Andreevska's solo exhibition of watercolors will open Wednesday at the Cultural and Information Center at 8 pm.

According to organizers, Andreevska's experiences painting as "an individual and much more intimate artistic activity, free from the need for intermediaries and other people's participation" unlike music composing, which she said was a process requiring various forms of collaboration.

"But for me, both music and painting require a high degree of concentration, clarity in one's intentions and carefully chosen means and, in general, a unique spiritual state of immersion, when time flows at a different speed," Andreevska said.

In recent years, she had been posting photos of her art on Facebook and receiving public encouragement to show them at a gallery, which resulted in this, her first, solo show of watercolors, titled 'Mapping Serenity.' 

Jana Andreevska (b. 1967, Skopje) is a music composer and professor at the state university's Faculty of Music. She showed interest in painting at an early age, but decided to professionally pursue music. She took up painting watercolors at the start of the Covid pandemic. mr/