Biography

Andrea Jameson was born in Oslo in 1953. Her mother was Norwegian and her father Irish. Her home has always been in County Waterford. After Newtown School, she went to study with the famous drawing teacher Signorina Simmi in Florence for one year, and then was a pupil of Maestro Giovanni Colacicchi.

She moved to London and joined the City and Guilds School where she studied drawing, painting and sculpture.

Solo exhibitions were held in Dublin at the Wellesley Ashe Gallery (1976), the Lad Lane Gallery (1981) in London at the Oliver Swann Gallery (1983) and in Dublin at the Gorry Gallery (1993). She also exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy Banquet Exhibition (1992).

Andrea held an exhibition with Margaret Best at the Five Island Gallery (Tors Cove, Newfoundland) in Autumn 2008.

There are numerous examples of her work in private collections in Europe, Scandinavia, America and Canada.

As a flower painter, she is featured in the Irish Botanical Illustrators And Flower Painters by Patricia Butler.

Andrea comes from an artistic family: her grandmother, Joan Jameson, was a prominent member of the Dublin Painters, as was her cousin, Evie Hone.