Annabel Gault
British
British, b. 1952
Annabel Gault was born in Midhurst, West Sussex in 1952. Her father David Hamilton Gault and her mother Felicity Jane Gribble, had five children, of which Gault is the eldest. Educated at West Surrey College of Art between 1973 and 1977, Gault completed her studies at the Royal Academy Schools (1977-80).
In 1982, Gault married Johnathan Michael Franklin in London, however she retained her maiden name with respect to her artwork. She now lives and works in Suffolk.
Her first group exhibition was in 1979 and her first solo exhibition was in 1981 at the Oxford Gallery. Other group shows that Gault took part in included at the Thackeray Gallery in 1989 and at Pallant House in 1993 and, in 1994, at both the City Gallery in Leicester and the Redpath Gallery in Vancouver.
Gault's work is included in the UK Government Art Collection and in Hampshire County Council Contemporary Art Collection, including 10 landscape paintings of the area round Butser Hill, to be displayed within their offices.
In 2012, she worked on large scale black and white drawings at the Tresco Botanical Gardens, Scilly Isles. Gault worked on these pieces in a variety of mediums, including charcoal, gouache, ink and wax resist.
Since 1973 she has shown in some twenty-five group exhibitions, and has had solo shows in Colchester, Oxford, Woodbridge, Ipswich, and Welshpool (Arts Council of Wales). Her first show at the Redfern Gallery was in 1993, where she has shown regularly since. Her work is in many public collections, including the Arts Council, British Museum, and the Government Art Collection. Between 1993 and 1994 she painted a series of works at Butser Hill in Hampshire, which were subsequently purchased by Hampshire County Council. Her work was most recently displayed at Southampton City Art Gallery, as part of its survey exhibition on the subject of British castles, entitled Capture the Castle, which opened in May 2017.
Annabel Gault’s landscapes emerge as indistinct, evocative hazes of light and colour. Working on paper, she uses various media, primarily gouache, oil, oil stick or charcoal, to capture the fall of sunlight over large formal gardens. The art critic Andrew Lambirth finds in her work an “artist’s true understanding of the moods and hues of nature, its subtleties. Beneath the apparent careless vivacity of surface lies a profound sense of structure: the vigorous sweep and drive of the paint is balanced by a precision of drawing, a flair for accurate notation”. Gault has been called "a powerfully expressive landscape painter".
Source: Wikipedia
British
British, b. 1952
Annabel Gault was born in Midhurst, West Sussex in 1952. Her father David Hamilton Gault and her mother Felicity Jane Gribble, had five children, of which Gault is the eldest. Educated at West Surrey College of Art between 1973 and 1977, Gault completed her studies at the Royal Academy Schools (1977-80).
In 1982, Gault married Johnathan Michael Franklin in London, however she retained her maiden name with respect to her artwork. She now lives and works in Suffolk.
Her first group exhibition was in 1979 and her first solo exhibition was in 1981 at the Oxford Gallery. Other group shows that Gault took part in included at the Thackeray Gallery in 1989 and at Pallant House in 1993 and, in 1994, at both the City Gallery in Leicester and the Redpath Gallery in Vancouver.
Gault's work is included in the UK Government Art Collection and in Hampshire County Council Contemporary Art Collection, including 10 landscape paintings of the area round Butser Hill, to be displayed within their offices.
In 2012, she worked on large scale black and white drawings at the Tresco Botanical Gardens, Scilly Isles. Gault worked on these pieces in a variety of mediums, including charcoal, gouache, ink and wax resist.
Since 1973 she has shown in some twenty-five group exhibitions, and has had solo shows in Colchester, Oxford, Woodbridge, Ipswich, and Welshpool (Arts Council of Wales). Her first show at the Redfern Gallery was in 1993, where she has shown regularly since. Her work is in many public collections, including the Arts Council, British Museum, and the Government Art Collection. Between 1993 and 1994 she painted a series of works at Butser Hill in Hampshire, which were subsequently purchased by Hampshire County Council. Her work was most recently displayed at Southampton City Art Gallery, as part of its survey exhibition on the subject of British castles, entitled Capture the Castle, which opened in May 2017.
Annabel Gault’s landscapes emerge as indistinct, evocative hazes of light and colour. Working on paper, she uses various media, primarily gouache, oil, oil stick or charcoal, to capture the fall of sunlight over large formal gardens. The art critic Andrew Lambirth finds in her work an “artist’s true understanding of the moods and hues of nature, its subtleties. Beneath the apparent careless vivacity of surface lies a profound sense of structure: the vigorous sweep and drive of the paint is balanced by a precision of drawing, a flair for accurate notation”. Gault has been called "a powerfully expressive landscape painter".
Source: Wikipedia
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