Sandra Prest-Froher is an Indigenous energy artist, fashion designer and natural dyer who lives, works and plays on the traditional, ancestral and unceded territory of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations. She was born in Terrace, BC and currently resides with her family in Victoria, BC. She is a member of the Sqwah First Nation in the Fraser Valley and is from the Stolo Nation. Froher’s abstract paintings speak to a realm of hidden truths. Her lived experience and understanding of the world are articulated through abstracted and layered colours to create a visceral connection to the unseen world. Froher chooses her materials deliberately to express the outcome of her expression. Prest-Froher channels energy through her body and blows air currents onto the pigments and inks that interlace on the canvas to create a type of marbling. Through this process, spiralling layers begin to emerge, creating a surreal mixture of opulence and otherworldliness. Prest-Froher is interested in the process of transformation and metamorphosis, employing a distinct style of abstraction or, what she calls, Energy Art. Her work brings together instinctive compositions while revealing the precise power of bold colours and sweeping gestural brushstrokes, bringing alive the fundamental quest to express something personal, hinting towards freedom in a poetic, abstracted way. Prest-Froher's work is collected throughout Europe and North America.