Andrea Biller Collins

Drawings on Paper

emergence, spring

mixed media on paper, 12 × 9, 2024

hemlock no. 1

mixed media on paper, 6 x 6, 2025

vernalization series, summer no. 1

mixed media on paper, 6 × 6, 2024

poppy no. 2

mixed media on paper, 6 × 6, 2025

miniature landscape Beltane

Mixed media, 12 x 9, 2022

miniature landscape series, mixed media on paper, 2019, 12 x 9

Foxglove, miniature landscape series, mixed media on paper, 2019, 12 x 9

miniature landscape series, mixed media on paper, 2019, 12 x 9

‘small wings’, telling the bees series, mixed media on paper, 8 x 10, 2018

Winternest, mixed media on paper, 2014

Winternest, mixed media on paper, 14 x11, 2014

Panel drawings

Garden series no. 2

Mixed media, 8x8, 2023

Garden series no. 1

Mixed media, 8 x8, 2023

Garden series no. 11

Mixed media, 8 x 8, 2023

Garden series no. 10

Mixed media, 8 x8, 2023

Garden series no. 7

Mixed media, 8 x 8, 2023

Garden series no. 5

Mixed media, 8 x 8, 2023

Garden series no. 8

Mixed media, 8x8, 2023

Forest

8x8 mixed media on wood panel, 2021

Night walk

Mixed media, 8 x 8, 2021

Night garden

Mixed media, 8 x 8, 2021

Bloom

8x8 mixed media on wood panel, 2021

Be a weed or a sparrow 3, mixed media on wood, 8 x 8, 2019

Be a weed or a sparrow 4, mixed media on wood, 8 x 8, 2019

Be a weed or a sparrow 5, mixed media on wood, 8 x 8, 2019

Paula's Garden

with dirt under her nails, Paula’s Garden project

Embroidery on printed fabric, 2021

How to live with wild rabbits, Paula's Garden project

Embroidery on hand dyed wool felt

Foxglove 12 x 9 Mixed media on paper, included in the Full Blede broadsheet, The Undertaking, Issue 10

After reading a biography of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker this past summer I decided to plant a garden using flowers that appeared in her paintings or that she mentioned in her writing, then document it. So, in preparation I spent a lot of time looking at her work. It wasn’t always easy to identify the plants but the “Old Woman in the Garden” was most certainly holding a foxglove, so I planted it, among many others, sometimes just guessing what the flower depicted might be. As a gardener, I should have anticipated the difficulty of using nature as a collaborator. Almost nothing turned out as I expected. Unpredictable weather, rampant weeds, and hungry insects all insisted on altering my attempts.

Collaboration

native goldenrod

Dearkeystone collaborative drawing, seed packet design for Hungry Hook Farm in Bainbridge , PA

Swallows nest from Dearkeystone collaboration Fractured Landscape with Harriet Hacker at Creative York, York PA, 2019

Installation view of "A Telling" at City Arts, York, PA, co-curated with Harriet Hacker, 2012.

Installation View of "A Telling"

Installation view of "Remanent" from "Apocalypse Island, lowercase gallery, Wrightsville, PA, 2012