Andrea Jameson was born in Oslo in 1953 to an Irish father and a Norwegian mother. She has always lived in Co 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 & Guilds School where she studied drawing, painting and sculpture.

She has had several solo exhibitions in Dublin and London and also in the Old Market House, Dungarvan in 2007. She held a joint show with Margaret Best in Five Island Art Gallery in Newfoundland in 2008 to illustrate the varied landscape of Ireland and Newfoundland, and is featured in Patricia Butler’s “Irish Botanical Illustrators and Flower Painters”

“The Moving Exhibition of Irish Gardens” is an ongoing series of exhibitions featuring Irish gardens in which Andrea has exhibited each year.

“Stepping Through The Garden Gate: Inside Ireland`s Walled Gardens” an exhibition of walled gardens of Ireland hosted by The Irish Georgian Society features Andrea’s paintings from seven gardens.

Andrea’s grandmother, Joan Jameson was a prominent member of the Dublin painters as was Joan’s cousin Evie Hone.