Andrea Donnelly

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Andrea Donnelly

Fine artist in Richmond, VA. Weaving, painting, collage, drawing, installation. Visit on IG for my bespoke woven goods for home/wear.

02/02/2026

Mimosa Fronds 2, 2025
Handwoven cotton, silk, pigment, cotton backing
50 x 34 inches

01/26/2026

The making of the Columbine series: six unique weavings from three original paintings. Cloth is woven, painted, unwoven then rewoven. This is a lovely dance between my intention as an artist, my skill as a weaver, and then being able to give up that control, to see what the pulling apart of the first cloth, the mechanics of the loom, and the personality of the threads as they are being rewoven have to say in the work. Chance, collaboration, and serendipity come together in this process. Working this way, despite the traditionally repetitive nature of weaving, is always incredibly engaging and full of wonder.

TRANSIENT PHENOMENA ✨✨✨
On view through March 6th✨✨✨

01/21/2026

✨✨✨TRANSIENT PHENOMENA is on view through March 6 ✨✨✨.

01/02/2026

Happy New Year! I can’t believe I get to start the year by sharing a brand new body of work with the world. Here’s an in-process preview of a pair of works called “Hydrangea Puff 1 and 2”. Both will be featured in my upcoming show titled Transient Phenomena, opening this Thursday, January 8 at Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, Virginia. All the pieces in this show are interpretations of various little natural treasures I’ve collected over the years. The work starts as a drawing, becomes a painting on handwoven cloth, and is then unwoven and rewoven to create two unique but related works from the original painting. Link to the show in bio.

12/23/2025

Today I am celebrating taking the last pieces for my upcoming show TRANSIENT PHENOMENA to the framer!!! Work is officially complete. Very excited to share a this new direction in my work. Opens January 8 at . More info linked in bio ☝️☝️☝️

10/15/2025

Paintings from a mimosa seed pod, in the process of deconstruction and reweaving.

10/14/2025

Sharing a bit of the process I use in creating two handwoven paintings from one original painted cloth. Snapdragon seed pods.

10/10/2025

This morning’s colors. New painted weavings are in process.

04/05/2025

All three of these paintings emerged from looking at the same thing: a magnolia seed pod. I love the dance of imagination and translation. These painting are only the start of another series of translations. They will be taken apart, crisp will turn to hazy, new things will happen.

03/27/2025

Working out a color palette for a new series of weavings.

03/17/2025

I want to get everything I can out of the highly labor-intensive process of weaving and dyeing my own raw material but as scraps get smaller it gets harder. So it feels like this piece was created from thin air: a solid and tangible field of weaving sprung from “unusable” bits.

03/13/2025

SUBTLETY: when I want to press my nose up against the world and see between its molecules. Discovery is the delicious reward for close looking…”Little Bits No.10 and No.11.” Handwoven cotton, cotton cloth, dye, graphite, PVA on paper. 30 x 23 inches each.

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Richmond, VA
23173, 23218–23242, 23249–23250, 23255, 23260–23261, 23269, 23273–23274,

Website

http://andreadonnelly.com/

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