Biography

Andrea Jameson was born in Oslo in 1953. Her mother was Norwegian and her father was 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), and The Old Market House, Dungarvan (2007)”.

Five Island Art Gallery, Tors Cove in Newfoundland in 2008, a joint exhibition with Margaret Best, held to illustrate the varied landscape of Ireland and Newfoundland .

“The Moving Exhibition of Irish Gardens” is an ongoing series of exhibitions which features Irish gardens and Andrea has contributed to these each year.

in May 2021 The Irish Georgian Society hosted “Stepping Through The Garden Gate”. Inside Ireland`s Walled Gardens, an exhibition of walled gardens of Ireland. Andrea was one of the four artists to be part of this exhibition.

FROM THE 11th OF SEPTEMBER UNTIL THE 4th OF OCTOBER 2026 ANDREA HAS A SOLO EXHIBITION AT THE BALLYMALOE GRAINSTORE ENTITLED A YEAR OF HAPPINESS.

THE EXHIBITION IS DEDICATED to the surgical and oncology consultants,their teams and everyone at Cork University and Bon Secours hospitals who, due to their skills and care, made A YEAR OF HAPPINESS possible. Profits from the exhibition will go to cancer research and supports for patients with cancer.

Andrea is featured in Patricia`s Butlers “Irish Botanical Illustrators and flower painters”

Andrea Jameson comes from an Artistic family, her grandmother, Joan Jameson was a prominent member of the Dublin painters as was Joan`s cousin Evie Hone.