Born at Overbury, Worcestershire, Annabel Gosling has been a full-time painter since the age of sixteen. She studied at the Ipswich School of Art, The Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting and Angers Beaux Arts in France. She was awarded Scholarships by both the Leverhulme Foundation and the Byam Shaw.
Since the age of 20, when she first exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, she has had numerous London solo exhibitions at West End galleries. She has also shown regularly with mixed exhibitons, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Royal Society of British Artists and the New English Art Club. She was awarded the Meynell Fenton Prize at the Discerning Eye.
Her commissions have included those from the Savoy Hotel, the Royal family of Abu Dhabi and a large fresco ceiling for Pavilion Opera.
In the course of her career she has journeyed extensively, travelling throughout India, Spain and the Mediterranean in search of the distinctive light that permeates all of her paintings. Her talent for capturing the essence of the atmosphere of a place is due in no small part to her habit of working on site, in front of the motif, an increasingly rare ability in the modern art market. She divides her working life between travel and her studio in Suffolk.
She will be having her next solo exhibition in London at Panter and Hall in October 2012.Meynell Fenton Prize (Discerning Eye)
Leverhulme Scholarship
Byam Shaw Scholarship
SOLO SHOWS
1971 - Ansdell Gallery, London
1980 - Royal Festival Hall, London
1991 - Mall Galleries, London
1992/93/95 - Mistral Galleries, London
1997 - Albemarle Gallery, London
2000 - Albemarle Gallery, London
2001 - 20th Century Theatre, London
2005 - Oakham Contemporary (now Panter and Hall), London
2007 - Oakham Contemporary (now Panter and Hall), London.
MIXED SHOWS
1962-78 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition
------------ Royal Society of British Artists
------------ Royal Society of Portrait Painters
1968 - The Archer Gallery, London
1969 - Oban, Scotland
1975 - Galerie George, London
1988-98 - New English Art Club
1989-95 - Mistral Galleries, London
1991-97 - Laing Competition
1991-98 - Brian Sinfield Gallery
1991-99 - Langham Fine Art
1992-97 - John Noott Gallery
1993 - West Woodhay Gallery
1994-98 - Aberdona Gallery, Scotland
1995 - Stone Age Gallery
1996 - Christie's Interiors Sale, London
1994-97 - Venable Neslage Galleries, Washington, USA
1994-98 - Norman Machin Gallery, Oxford
1995-98 - Ernst & Young Exhibition
1995-98 - Merriscourt Paintings
1996-2000 - Albemarle Gallery
1997 - Graham & Oldham, Ipswich
1998 - Multiple Births Foundation
1997-99 - Art for Youth
1997-99 - Susie Baynham/Jeanna Gorman
1998 - The Discerning Eye
1998 - The Stables Gallery, Belfast
1999-2003 - Edwin Coe Exhibition
1999-2000 - Millenium Exhibition, Albemarle Gallery
2001 - Walker Galleries, Harrogate
2000-2012 - Albemarle Gallery, London
--------- ---- --Oakham Contemporary, London
---------------- Geedon Gallery, Essex
---------------- Panter and Hall, London
---------------- Iken Gallery, Suffolk
COLLECTIONS & WORK IN SITU
Cheltenham and Gloucester B S Permanent Collection
Scottish Educational Development Authority
Pavilion Opera
The Savoy Hotel, London
The Berkeley Hotel, London
The Ritz Hotel, Madrid
The Royal Family of Abu Dhabi
Readers Digest - Cover Painting
Allen & Overy
-and private collections.