Indra Laura Lazdiņa was born in 1966, in Rīga, Latvia. Indra is an artist-painter and received her Masters in Arts at the Latvian Art Academy. She is a teacher with 30 years of experience working at a professional art school and a general education school. Indra is a member of the evaluation committees of international competitions of children's and teen’s visual art, a teacher in adult lifelong education and a private teacher to individuals and groups. Indra describes herself as a painter-symbolist. What is seen by the eye contains information about the world around us, which, as we run past it every day, we manage to perceive only partially. At times it is a conscious choice - not to allow one- self to notice. But the world is so interesting, rich in its splendour and multi-level information! Art offers a pause, a glimpse into our existence by deciphering it through colour changes, lines, the play between light and shadow, rhythms of structures, images, and semiotic relationships. And all of this can be synthesized into symbols. It can happen that works of art live their own lives, when artistic techniques, while building a work, “work back” on a person, bringing answers or messages “forward”. In her art, Indra Laura Lazdiņa has no desire to use individual principles from the range of pictorial techniques. She prefers the synergy of artists’ experience accumulated in the world. This is the key to Indra’s art. The gliding observation of the surface, which is a characteristic of Chinese paintings, and the impressionistic use of transitions of shades of details that carry messages in their multi- layeredness. Sometimes the abundance of baroque perceptual thinking brings the inclusion of symbolic representations of fairy tales and myths in the search for answers... Oral heritage and various values ​​of fine arts, which in Indra’s art is the language through which, when painting, she seeks answers to various themes. The direction of the answer is determined by the sound that Indra begins to hear through the colours, once the work is shifting in the right direction. Colour has a sound, but the phonetic sound and content of the message have colour… It is a real challenge to harmonize the means of the technique with the message, including through the semiotics. What is my goal when showing the works to the public? With the use of the considered subject in the artwork, to awaken the memories, experiences and feelings of the viewer - GIVING BACK TIME through awaking about that, which has passed, and has now fallen silent, being forgotten in the routine of everyday life.   Indra works between Latvia and London in collaboration with Aija Miranda - her UK based Representative. Aija is a Designer and Maker, working in the Performance industry in London. Together, they held a solo exhibition of Indra's work at The Blue Lotus Foundation in Hampstead, London (Fall 2024) and are currently preparing for several Art Fairs later this year.