Andrea's love of drawing and making began at a very young age scavenging and recycling scrap materials to create something new. She  graduated from Liverpool Hope University with a Bachelor of Design Degree which encouraged her love of working across a range of art forms and crafts. Her career has crossed over from Ceramics in community settings to fifteen years as a designer creating surface patterns and prints  for the fashion industry and finally back to Studio Ceramics alongside a social practice with learning disabled adults. She is currently studying an MA Ceramics at Staffordshire University.

 Her work quietly combines a love of line alongside relief printmaking and ceramics techniques, using slip decorated earthenware in a non-traditional way. Drawing and photography are essential parts of her practice, using this as a way to think through ideas and themes. Although mainly working in earthenware she enjoys the experimental aspects of pottery and the endless creative opportunities the materials offer to be expressive. She is currently trying to make her practice as sustainable as possible by once firing where possible; recycling clay; reusing wasted glaze materials washed off brushes; using as little water as possible and using renewable materials in the glaze, this is a work in progress.

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