AS AN ARTIST

Dolores Andrew works in a variety of media, including pen and ink, watercolor, pastel, charcoal and scratchboard. She is represented in public and private collections throughout the United States. She is basically a realist, with a crisp, understated representational style. Her work, while detailed and accurate, has an air of preciseness and cool briskness which avoids being stilted or rigid. Her more loosely drawn line work in pen and ink shows her interest in the character and mood created by economy of line. When her subjects are buildings or landscapes, they range from the famous landmarks to the mundane. Her still life paintings are usually flowers.

AS A DESIGNER

She works in the embroidery media, but favors the surface techniques — crewel, pulled thread, and silk.  Often her designs appear to be translations of her fine art work to the stitchery medium, but she has also been influenced by her graduate study in Italian Renaissance embroidery and by research in lesser known media such as Casalguidi and whitework.

AS A TEACHER, JUDGE , AND LECTURER

Dolores Andrew has taught fine arts ans needlework at the college level and privately, as well as workshops for local, regional and national groups.  She actively judges and lectures in the fine arts and needle arts fields.

AWARDS

Signature member of the Maryland Pastel Society.   And in  2005, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award  from the National Academy of Needlearts