About
We are so very sorry to announce the passing of Annabel Avison: artist, daughter, sister & friend, in late September 2023 - she was 26. Annie battled bowel cancer with composure, her incredible sense of humour and great dignity and will be deeply and forever missed by her family, her friends and her collaborators.
Studying for a masters in art psychotherapy at the time of her diagnosis, she had been excited and passionate about pursuing her twin gifts of creativity and care. During the short time she was involved in this area, she found real contentment and fulfilment and a genuine deep enthusiasm and excitement for the road ahead. She was disappointed not to be able to continue along that path and had been falling in love with the profession and her surroundings in London. Annabel was surrounded by her doting family in England and her native Wales throughout her illness and was with her devoted parents at the time of her death, peacefully, in Reading, Berkshire.
Her website will be maintained in her memory; sadly no more pieces are for sale but we will add pictures of her work on the gallery page as a tribute to this very original, authentic and gifted artist.
Her art is centred around emotion, thought, sensation and the people who experience them. Capturing the essence of what it is to feel, where emotion shows itself in people and how it is distilled have formed the basis of her works for the past few years. Often focusing on very specific and small-scale themes such as the effect of a phone call from a family member, the frustration of friends or the problems that pigeons present. Annabel’s work is intended to reflect what may be highly personal experience but which can resonate with everyone. Often self-deprecating and starkly honest, Annabel’s pieces can combine frivolity and pathos, lightness and darkness, simplicity and complexity, urging the observer to take what they see at face value and then to ponder the possibility of a more profound truth beneath.
Working with paint, crayon, charcoal, pencil, biro, ink, clay and digital media; pieces created onto canvas, wood, metal, linoleum, cardboard, fabric and scale ranging from large installations to tiny hand-held art, Annabel aims to retain fluidity of expression in order to respond to her ideas and those who commission her in as diverse a way as possible. Her most recent piece is 'Waiting Room' - a study of disparate groups of people thrown into a common situation, each with a different story, a different path but in this moment, all united in a single place, for the same purpose - together, but alone.
Studying for a masters in art psychotherapy at the time of her diagnosis, she had been excited and passionate about pursuing her twin gifts of creativity and care. During the short time she was involved in this area, she found real contentment and fulfilment and a genuine deep enthusiasm and excitement for the road ahead. She was disappointed not to be able to continue along that path and had been falling in love with the profession and her surroundings in London. Annabel was surrounded by her doting family in England and her native Wales throughout her illness and was with her devoted parents at the time of her death, peacefully, in Reading, Berkshire.
Her website will be maintained in her memory; sadly no more pieces are for sale but we will add pictures of her work on the gallery page as a tribute to this very original, authentic and gifted artist.
Her art is centred around emotion, thought, sensation and the people who experience them. Capturing the essence of what it is to feel, where emotion shows itself in people and how it is distilled have formed the basis of her works for the past few years. Often focusing on very specific and small-scale themes such as the effect of a phone call from a family member, the frustration of friends or the problems that pigeons present. Annabel’s work is intended to reflect what may be highly personal experience but which can resonate with everyone. Often self-deprecating and starkly honest, Annabel’s pieces can combine frivolity and pathos, lightness and darkness, simplicity and complexity, urging the observer to take what they see at face value and then to ponder the possibility of a more profound truth beneath.
Working with paint, crayon, charcoal, pencil, biro, ink, clay and digital media; pieces created onto canvas, wood, metal, linoleum, cardboard, fabric and scale ranging from large installations to tiny hand-held art, Annabel aims to retain fluidity of expression in order to respond to her ideas and those who commission her in as diverse a way as possible. Her most recent piece is 'Waiting Room' - a study of disparate groups of people thrown into a common situation, each with a different story, a different path but in this moment, all united in a single place, for the same purpose - together, but alone.
