Annabel Carey

Annabel Carey began exhibiting professionally in 1984 since which time she has been invited to take part in numerous exhibitions at galleries and festivals working with great success in oils, acrylics and watercolour. For the last thirty years she has been living in the Cotswolds, an area that has both beautiful and inspiring countryside and a vibrant artistic community.

Annabel’s acrylic paintings exploring psychological landscapes were selected for exhibition by the Royal West of England Academy at Bristol and by the Royal Watercolour Society at the Bankside Gallery in London.

In February 2004 Annabel and her husband, the artist David Birch, were invited to exhibit their paintings and join the Rubio Quartet of Flanders in a celebration of the String Quartets of Shostakovich which took place at the Michael Tippet Centre in Bath and later at Goldsmith’s College in London at which the artists both talked about their work.

In further innovative work over a period of twenty years Annabel Carey has developed the technique of batik, using it in fine art form. This resulted in the project “Spirit of Stones”, a one person touring exhibition which was exhibited in municipal museums and art galleries at Aberdeen, Leeds, Hereford, Newport (S. Wales) and Truro. In 2015 the “Time of Trees”, a unique concept of interchangeable diptychs and triptychs in oils, was shown at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery. Annabel has her paintings in private collections and in collections at Gloucester Museum and Art Gallery and at Buxton Museum and Art Gallery.

Travelling has become a part of our lifestyles and the landmarks that we pass are incorporated into our sayings and phrases and have become metaphors for our journey through life. Landmarks are both natural and created by people to ease our travels and punctuate important locations. These have become a feature in Annabel’s latest oil paintings as she travels in time and space physically, mentally and emotionally. The narrative paintings of landscapes, seascapes, towns and villages that result from these travels also become psychological pathways that resonate with daily life and create memories that link us with people and events.