For several years she worked in watercolor, but she switched to oils in the late 90s, drawn to the smell, feel and vibrant color, and immediately found gallery representation, with her first solo show soon to follow.

Primarily self-taught, and inspired by the Wyeths, John Singer Sargent and Edward Hopper (to whom she is often compared), she has also studied at Maine College of Art and taken classes with well-known local artists. Andrea is fascinated by how paint can catch the slanting light on the side of a building, a chair, a coffee pot, and turn such mundane elements into highly collectible works of art.  Given direction by supportive teachers and gallery owners in Provincetown, Maine and New Hampshire, Andrea has steadily refined her technique and found her true voice in Provincetown's streetscapes and interiors.  Her Provincetown paintings can be found in private and corporate collections all across the country.

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Moving full-time to Provincetown in 2012, Andrea retired from her career selling Maine lakefront real estate and lived in "the garret", a tiny rented space overlooking Provincetown Harbor.  Storing art supplies in, under and on top of every possible surface, she painted in her kitchen listening to Leonard Cohen, Luciano Pavarotti and the sound of surf under the old sail loft she called home. Now an established Provincetown artist, she has a separate studio for larger work but paints mostly in her smaller studio in the Commercial Street home she shares with her husband Brian O'Malley.

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