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Artist
Statement
My purpose
as an artist is to portray the beauty and color in our world and its
people, especially in the South Carolina Lowcountry, as I experience
them with my eyes and within my heart. The luminosity and
freshness of watercolor have made it my medium of choice for this
purpose. However, I am presently exploring oil painting as
well.
Exhibitions
St. Augustine Art
Association - Judith Ryan Williams Annual Juried Exhibit -Nature and
Wildlife - St. Augustine, FL - 2010
North Charleston Arts
Festival - "Gift Shop" - Third Place - North Charleston, SC - 2010
Moja Arts Festival – Five-Women Invitational Exhibit - “I,
Too, America” – Charleston, SC - 2009
South Carolina Watermedia Society 32nd Annual Exhibition –
Florence Museum of Art, Florence SC - 2009
“Uptown
in Downtown Charleston” - One-Woman Show – Charleston County Public
Library – 2009
“Girl
with a Gold Earring” Exhibition – Magnolia Plantation – Honorable
Mention - 2009
“Art on
the Ashley” – Drayton Hall Plantation, Charleston, SC - 2008
Lowcountry Senior Art Festival, Lowcountry Senior Center - 2008
"Crowns" Silent Auction - Charleston Hat Ladies- 2008
Magnolia Plantation Winter Festival - 2008
Avery
Research Center, Variations on a Theme Exhibit - 2007
Caw Caw
Interpretive Center – 2007-2009
Piccolo
Spoleto Juried Art Exhibit - 2007
Charleston Artist Guild – Signature Juried Art Exhibition,
"Honorable Mention"- 2007
The
City Gallery at Waterfront Park, Charleston, SC - The Changing Face
of Charleston - 2007
Georgina Arts Centre and Gallery, Sutton, Ontario, Canada - Around
the World in Watercolour - 2006
Charleston Artist Guild – Signature Juried Art Exhibition -
2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2010
Biographical
Info
Andrea was born in Charleston, SC where she still resides. She
earned a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics from Marymount College,
Tarrytown, New York, and a Master of Education in Counseling from
The Citadel in Charleston. Andrea retired from Trident Technical
College in North Charleston where she taught mathematics in the
Developmental Studies Program. She has also recently retired her
business, Andrea Hazel Photography. She has been painting in
watercolors since 2001, and is now immersed in painting full time.
She is also presently studying oil painting at the
College of Charleston to widen her painting repertoire. She is
passionate about art. She is an exhibiting member of the South
Carolina Watermedia Society and an exhibiting member of the
Charleston Artist Guild. Her work can currently be seen at Drayton
Hall Plantation, Caw Caw Interpretive Center and the Charleston
Artist Guild Gallery. Andrea is married to Frank Hamilton, and they
have two daughters, a son, two grandsons, one granddaughter, a
daughter-in-law and two sons-in-law.
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