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Andrea McCatherin Sawyer grew up in Falmouth, Maine, where her artistic gift was recognized in third grade when her teacher pulled her aside & plopped her in front of an easel for the first time.  Throughout her childhood, she dabbled in watercolors & ink.  In high school, she studied under Bill Manning, a Maine artist known for his striking abstracts.

 

Then life happened, as she raised four children with her late husband, Larry Sawyer, had careers in kitchen design & real estate, and became a weaver & spinner while only occasionally dabbling in fine art.

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During Andi and Larry's first trip to Provincetown in 1995 - she became enchanted, as many first-time visitors are, by the unique light - & she returned to their home in southern Maine determined to pick up a paintbrush again. First with watercolors then oils, she painted Portland Maine & Provincetown scenes & was in her first galleries in Maine, then Provincetown, soon after. 

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Eventually she retired from selling Maine waterfront real estate & moved to the tiny "garret" over Fanizzi"s restaurant she & Larry had visited for many years - to be what she had long dreamed of, a painter living in Provincetown.

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First working in the "garret's minuscule kitchen then in her own art studio on Hensche Lane, during her long collaboration with the former Charles-Baltivik Gallery on Kiley Court she built a following of collectors throughout the country & world with her oil paintings - local street scenes, especially at night, were a specialty. 

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Moving to Anthony Street in 2017, she often stayed up all night painting small works while doing her larger paintings at the studio, selling mostly on-line or in solo shows, a practice she continued after she began dating & subsequently married Dr. Brian O'Malley. They live on Commercial Street in the east end where she and Brian, a photographer, both keep home studios.

 

Still working mainly in oils with occasional forays - sometimes with Brian - into white-line printing, printmaking, pottery, & now pastels, she continues to stretch, experiment and grow.

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A chance meeting in June of 2024 led to Andi renting a two week long"pop-up" gallery across from Kiley Court, it was so successful that when she was offered the space for the 2025 season, with Brian's enthusiastic support & other friends'' encouragement, the 76 year-old gulped & said yes - "If I don't do it now I never will."

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Coming May of 2025 - Cad Red Gallery!

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