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BIOGRAPHY



Trained in Fine Art : Painting at Kingston in the early 60's. After graduation Andrea lived in Devon from where her family originates. While her family were growing up, she ran a clothing business Schmocks and in 1976 held an exhibition of screen-printed smocks in Totnes, Devon. Once her children left home, she set out to live in Wales and resume painting, having her first exhibition at the Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea in 1992. Andrea has continued to show her work there and throughout Wales & England since. In 1998 she was selected as a member of the Watercolour Society of Wales (WSW). Although most of her work is coastal landscape, she is open to other work, and looks forward to making portraits and work based on legend and imagined more abstract work.

Selection of solo exhibitions
   
2009 TORQUAY Torbay Hospital Gallery
2009 TENBY Museum & Art Gallery
2009 FALMOUTH The Great Atlantic Gallery
2008 NARBERTH Oriel Q Gallery
2008 SWANSEA Taliesin Arts centre
2008 MACHYNLLETH : M.O.M.A. Wales
2004 PORTHGAIN : Harbourlights Gallery,
nr. St Davids
2002 TENBY : Museum & Art Gallery
2001 & 1999 CARDIFF Norwegian Church Arts Centre
2001 & 1999 TORQUAY Torbay Hospital Gallery
2001 NARBERTH Oriel Queens Hall Gallery
2000 CARDIGAN Mwldan Arts Centre
1999 HEREFORD Kemble Gallery
   
1999 & 1997 Touring exhibition 'Above and Below' supported by the Arts Council of Wales at these seven venues:
   
  SWANSEA Taliesin Art Centre
  BRECON : Theatr Brycheiniog
( their inaugral exhibition)
  NEATH : Museum & Art Gallery
  CARMARTHEN : Oriel Myrddin
  PONTARDAWE : Arts Centre
  PEMBROKE DOCK : Library
  NARBERTH : Oriel Queens Hall Gallery
   
Selection of mixed exhibitions
   
2007 TENBY Art Matters Gallery
2007 NARBERTH Oriel Q Gallery
2006 CARDIFF : St Davids Hall : with WSW
2006 CARDIGAN : 'Lines and Strata'
2005 Exhibitions with WSW
2004 HEREFORD : Tidal Wave Gallery :
'Six Pembrokeshire Painters'
2004 SWANSEA : Taliesin Arts Centre : with WSW
2003 TORQUAY : Torbay Hospital Gallery : with Diana Heeks.
2003 & 2000 PENARTH : Turner House : with WSW
2002 SWANSEA : Taliesin Arts Centre : with Angela Hoppe Kingston
2002 MACHYNLLETH MOMA WALES :
Y Tabernacl : with WSW
2002 ST. DAVIDS : National Eisteddfod : 'Pentigili'
2002 ABERYSTWYTH : Arts Centre : Wales Drawing Biennale
2001 & 1999 CONWY : Royal Cambrian Academy :
with WSW
2001 BRECON : Brecnock Museum : with WSW
2001 LLANTARNAM : Llantarnam Grange :
with WSW
2000 NATIONAL BOTANIC GARDENS OF WALES
2000 CARMARTHEN : Oriel Myrddin : 'Myths & Legends
1999 TENBY : Museum & Art Gallery :
'Women Artists & Pembrokeshire'
1998 Onwards …exhibiting with the Watercolour Society of Wales
1994 SWANSEA : Taliesin Arts Centre :
with Geoff Yeomans

Represented at

The Golden Sheaf gallery : Narberth
The Harbourlights Gallery : Porthgain, St. Davids
The Great Atlantic Galleries : Falmouth, St.Just, Monmouth
Art Matters Gallery, Tenby

blue lagoon exclusive

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During 2008, I was involved in producing some giclee prints for some areas of Bluestone , a brand new ‘village’ holiday complex near Narberth. There is an exciting new swimming pool area called Blue Lagoon, shaped like an upturned coracle in glass steel & wood, for which several of my images have been printed , large-scale, onto acrylic. Some of my giclee prints are available from their ‘gallery’ retail outlet at Bluestone, including a ‘Blue Lagoon ‘ printed exclusively for them….not available elsewhere.