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. Andrea lives near the sea, at Amroth, with views across to distant
Lundy island. She is married to painter Geoff Yeomans.
ANDREA KELLAND GICLEES : BLUESTONE VILLAGE, PEMBROKESHIRE
Bluestone is a brand new ‘village’ created in woodlands near
Narberth, my local town. It has hundreds of wooden lodges as well as an
area of ‘traditional’ cottages. It also has a new pool building
called the Blue Lagoon, which was designed to represent an upturned coracle,
though to my eye recalls a water beetle. Bluestone wanted my work for
that wonderful setting .
Several of my images have been printed onto acrylic sheet, as large-scale
giclees, and they are stunning ! They will be wall-mounted in certain
areas of the Blue Lagoon & its restaurant. The largest of them is
BIG WAVE at 5’x 6’+ which will be positioned at the entry
to the pool itself…which has a wave machine : hopefully not producing
such mighty waves ! The other large prints are : ‘Waveswell’
at 5’x5’6”, ‘On the Rocks’ , ‘Over
the Rocks’, ‘Lagoon Ripples’, ‘Pebble Ripples’
and an exclusive ‘Blue Lagoon’ …this version of Blue
Lagoon is exclusive to Bluestone and will be available in smaller sized
giclees !
There are some superb framed giclees in the restaurant there too, as well
as in the 17 ‘STUDIO’ apartments. These look really classy
in their thick and deep ‘pewter’ frames. The retail areas
at Bluestone will have a selection of my giclees , as well as some of
my A5 cards which I’ve been printing at home.(not using quality
pigment inks though : so they could fade in strong light, if you’re
tempted to frame them !)
All my framing and printing has been managed by Kadinsky Art in Narberth.
Selection of solo exhibitions
2008 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
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
2-Person exhibitions
2003 TORQUAY : Torbay Hospital Gallery : with Diana Heeks.
2002 SWANSEA : Taliesin Arts Centre : with Angela Hoppe Kingston
1994 SWANSEA : Taliesin Arts Centre : with geoff Yeomans
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 & 2000 PENARTH : Turner House : with WSW
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 :
Middleton Hall
2000 CARMARTHEN : Oriel Myrddin : 'Myths & Legends
1999 TENBY : Museum & Art Gallery :
'Women Artists & Pembrokeshire'
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
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