A painter since childhood, Andrea Gaye has exhibited extensively in America, England (Brighton and London) and France (Paris). Art studies include the Brighton School of Art, a year of independent study in Paris, and twelve years as assistant to the renowned Spanish painter/teacher Sebastian Capella. She is known primarily for her colorful, expressive oil paintings of beach scenes.

Gaye's many corporate commissions include the La Jolla Beach and Tennis Club, the Sea Lodge, several hospitals for the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, The Memphis Women’s Hospital and the new Women’s Wing at Scripps Hospital in La Jolla.