‘A Year of Happiness’ Exhibition by Andrea Jameson.

Join us on September 10th, 6.30pm for the official opening of this very special exhibition.

Andrea Jameson - A Year of Happiness‍

An exhibition of new paintings
at Ballymaloe Grainstore
11 September- 04 October 2026

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Andrea Jameson lives by the banks of the river Blackwater in County Waterford and works mainly out of doors, by the sea, and capturing the countryside and gardens that surround her.
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Born in Oslo in 1953, her mother was Norwegian, her father Irish. Her grandmother Joan Jameson was a prominent member of the Dublin Painters, as was Joan`s cousin Evie Hone.
Following her secondary education in Newtown school, Waterford, she lived in Florence, Italy, where she studied drawing with Signorina Nerina Simi, and then became a pupil of Director of the
Accademia di Belle Arti, Giovanni Colacicchi, and his wife, Flavia. She then spent a year at the City and Guilds School of Art, London. Her return to Ireland involved private study in Dublin under John Kelly, with Walter Verling, and in the Crawford College of Art & Design under Frank Sanquest whom she describes as having been inspirational.
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Her first solo exhibition at the Wellesley Ash Gallery, Dublin in 1976, was followed by the Lad Lane Gallery in 1981, and in 1983 at the Oliver Swann Gallery, London.
In 1992 she was part of the Hibernian Banquet exhibition, Dublin, and in 1993, the Gorry Gallery hosted her second Irish solo exhibition.
A solo exhibition in 1996 in Sogndal, Norway, was followed in 2007 by another at the Old Market House, Dungarvan, County Waterford.
In 2008 Andrea was chosen with Margaret Best Walsh by the Newfoundland Arts Council to illustrate, through their paintings, the varied coastline and landscape of Ireland and Newfoundland.
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The following year she was the first Irish artist to be commissioned by Acquamediale International Arts Council in Germany, where she showed her sculpture, The Next Step Is Our Future. This reflects her thoughts on climate change, and the necessity to protect our environment.
She is featured in Patricia Butler`s Irish Botanical Illustrators and Flower Painters, and in 2013 she was one of five artists who shared the first series of exhibitions, Irish Gardens Seen Through The Eyes of an Artist, at the Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. These exhibitions have continued throughout Ireland, and she is working on the next one for September 2027 at Killruddery House & Gardens.
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The exhibition at Ballymaloe Grainstore is her first in this location.
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Website: andreajameson.com

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This 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.