"Where flowers bloom, so does hope."
— Lady Bird Johnson

My Story

My name is Andrea but I've always been known as Andy.  The name of my art business comes from the phrase people have said to me all my life — "Oh Andy!"

I have worked with fibers since age 4, starting with knitting taught by my mother. Merging my loves, I combine crochet or knitting with my own interpretation of freehand wool embroidery, often embracing haphazard stitches and much imperfection. I enjoy experimenting on non-traditional surfaces; I started out embroidering on crocheted wire, but have embellished many other substrates since, like woven chairs, tennis rackets and snowshoes.

Since the inception of O&Y Studio, my work has been featured in some wonderful publications. The Recognition tab of this website has a list. In 2023 I was chosen for the ArtPop Artist Cohort. Over the course of that year, my art was displayed on a vinyl billboard along interstates and highways, on digital billboards in our region and throughout the USA, as well as in New York’s Times Square. Seeing the mega-sized image of my embroidery will always be the art high of my life! My garden seasons tennis rackets were part of a Guild of Charlotte Artists exhibition, Guilding The Mint, at our amazing local Mint Museum of Art, and in 2026, my Cosmos Chair was juried in too. From 2024-2025 I was honored to be a Nine Eighteen Nine Studio Gallery resident artist.

I am currently working on a series on magenta wire….more to come!