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Annie Gunning - Painter
Annie Gunning has been painting professionally for ten years having previously enjoyed careers as advertising copywriter, music producer, and music publisher. She has also written a book for composers about music publishing and studied for one year at the bar. She is currently studying for a B.A. Hons. Degree in Fine Art at Central St. Martins in London.
In 1994 she gained a Higher Diploma in Art & Design with Distinction, winning the Stephen Bevan-Pritchard award for excellence in the same year. Her work has been accepted and hung by the Royal West of England Academy, The Society of Women Artists, Buckinghamshire County Art Gallery, Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Affordable Art Fair West, Art on Paper at the Royal College, and Bucks 21 Group. She shows regularly in a number of commercial galleries, and holds solo shows annually during Bucks Art Week.
Her first solo London show was in 1995 at Roger Jackson Associates, W1: In 1997 she was given a two-month solo show at Buckinghamshire County Art Gallery and in 1998 a two-person show at the Sunflower Gallery in Beaconsfield; a solo show at the Wiseman Gallery in Oxford followed in 2000. She shows regularly in Whittington Fine Art, Henley, The Wiseman Gallery, Oxford, Rivers Gallery, Nailsworth and Obsidian Art in Aylesbury. She has also shown at The West Wales Art Centre in Fishguard and The Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon. Many of her works are held in private and public collections in the UK, USA, Australia, & France.
Artist's Statement
My main inspiration comes from landscape, seascape, and the sensuous, near-edible quality of the paint. I work mostly in oils and colour and paint surface are among my main concerns; I'm especially drawn to dramatic light effects on land and sea, and take intentional liberties with reality - re-arranging topography, tilting planes, heightening colour, and exaggerating contrasts of tone. My aim is always to make the painting work better and to convey to the viewer more how it felt to be there than merely what it looked like.
I am currently investigating aerial archaeology and the relationship between aerial views and what is actually on the ground; it is interesting how different it feels to be above looking down and below looking up.
Events & Exhibitions 1995-2004
1995 Royal West of England Academy
Society of Women Artists - Westminster Hall
Roger Jackson Associates, W.1. Solo show
1996 Bucks Art Forum
Buckinghamshire County Art Gallery - Buckinghamshire Landscapes Exhibition
1997 Buckinghamshire County Art Gallery - solo show - Personal Journeys
Buckinghamshire County Art Gallery - Bucks Art Week Preview
1998 Wiseman Gallery opening show
Whittington Gallery Autumn show
1999 Wiseman Gallery - Christmas Exhibition
Whittington Gallery Spring & Autumn shows
2000 Wiseman Gallery - solo show
Whittington Gallery Spring & Autumn shows
Hicks Gallery - Wimbledon
Affordable Art Fair West
Buckinghamshire County Art Gallery - Off the Wall Market
2001 Hicks Gallery Wimbledon 6 man show
Affordable Art Fair Battersea
Whittington Gallery
Wiseman Gallery
West Wales Art Centre - Fishguard
2002 Art on Paper Fair - Royal College of Art
Hicks Gallery - Wimbledon
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea
Whittington Gallery - Amersham and Henley
Bucks 21 - Aylesbury Civic Centre
Buckinghamshire County Museum - Off the Wall Market
Orchard House Art Show
2003 Whittington Fine Art - Henley
Bucks 21 - Obsidian Gallery, Stoke Mandeville
Aylesbury County Art Gallery - Bucks Art Week Preview
Orchard House Art Show
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea
Rivers Gallery - Nailsworth
2004 Orchard House Art Show
Affordable Art Fair - Battersea
Wiseman Gallery - Oxford
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