Annette Edgar CV

Annette grew up in the East end of Glasgow and as an adult graduated from Glasgow School of Art where her tutors included David Donaldson, Barbara Rae, Duncan Shanks and Sandy Moffat.

Though for a while she taught Art in London and Glasgow, since 1990 Annette has painted full time and is a frequent contributor to many important national and international exhibitions as well as to commercial galleries.

Her work is regularly exhibited in the Royal Glasgow Institute, the Royal Society for Painters in Watercolours and the Royal Scottish Academy.

Annette is one of a rare breed - a vigorous female Scottish painter who is equally at home with large vibrant abstract works or lyrical colourful landscapes.

This contemporary Glasgow woman artist is a fine colourist who brings structure and poetic vision to all of her works.

In Annette's own words "I am often struck by a beautiful view but feel it is pointless to paint it because Nature has done the job so much better. If I do work directly from nature it is with a particular attitude to the abstract shapes and connections within.

Most often these are studies for larger paintings which combine with filtered remembered images. What does it for me is paint with all its colour and fluidity."

Memberships and Awards

Member of Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts

Professional Member of Society of Women Artists

Professional Member of Society of Scottish Artists

Professional Member of Visual Arts Scotland

Short Listed for JD Ferguson Travel Award

MacRobert Purchase Award First Prize

Wm. and Mary Armour Award, Paisley Art Institute

Solo Exhibitions

1988 Wasps Gallery, Glasgow
1989 Joan Hughson, Glasgow
1990 Cormund Gallery, Glasgow
1991 369 Gallery,Edinburgh
1992 90's Gallery,Glasgow
1993 The Edinburgh Gallery,Edinburgh
1994 Physicians Hall, Edinburgh
1996 Museum of Transport, Glasgow
1996 Cowgate Arts, Edinburgh
1997 Dick Institute, Kilmarnock
1997 Stenton Gallery, East Lothian
1999 Bohun Gallery, Henley on Thames
2000 Stenton Gallery, East Lothian
2001 Compass Gallery, Glasgow
2002 Schomburg Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 Polloksheilds Burgh Hall, Glasgow
2004 House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
2006 Bohun Gallery,Henley on Thames
2006 Broughton Gallery, Scottish Borders

Collections

Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh
Royal Bank of Scotland , Gyle, Edinburgh
East Lothian District Council
Herriot Watt University, Edinburgh
Michael Kelly Associates, Glasgow
Salon Services, Glasgow
Wright Johnston & Mackenzie, Glasgow
Laing Jewellers, Glasgow and Edinburgh
MacRoberts Solicitors, Glasgow
Arthur Anderson, Edinburgh
Cinetel Films, Los Angeles
Mika Coporation America, Los Angeles
Serico Coporation America, Los Angeles
Prior's Court School, Oxfordshire
Dundas and Wilson, Glasgow
Wylie & Bisset, Glasgow

Group Exhibtions

Paisley Art Institute
Contemporary Art Fair, Los Angeles
Contemporary Art Fair, Bath
369 Gallery, Edinburgh
De Vorzon Gallery, Los Angeles
CCA, Glasgow
Edinburgh Contemporary Art Fair
Glasgow School of Art
90's Gallery, Glasgow
SSA, Royal Academy, Edinburgh
Kelly Gallery, Glasgow
Glasgow Art Fair
Art Exposure Open Mayfest
Compass Gallery, Glasgow
London Contemporary Art Fair
Stenton Gallery, East Lothian
Edinburgh Festival
RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh
Leith Gallery, Edinburgh
Beaux Arts, Bath
Bohun Gallery, Henley, (Artists of Fame and Promise)
R.G.I., McLellan Galleries, Glasgow
Thompson's Gallery, London
RSW, Royal Academy, Edinburgh
Art Expo, New York
Thompson's Gallery, Gloucestershire
Schomburg Gallery Los Angeles
Battersea Art Fair
Ainscough Gallery London
Cheltenham Drawing Open
Painting in Scotland, Glasgow Print Studio
Celebration of Art, MacLaurin Gallery,Ayr.
MacLean Fine Art

Reviews

"Her attack with colour is brave
and arresting."
Alice Bain, The Herald

"...With bold brushstrokes
she paints up a storm."
Clare Flowers, The Herald

"Annette Edgar made such
bold statements that her gift
for figure painting on an epic
scale cannot go unrecognised..."
W.G. Smith, Scotland on Sunday
(Review of the year)

"It is life itself which is being
affirmed in such big brush strokes,
such bold and uncompromising
colour. Go along and charge
your batteries."
W.G. Smith, Scotland on Sunday

"There is often behind the
expressionist exaltation a
suggestion of imminent turmoil"
W.G. Smith, Scotland on Sunday

"...Watch for Annette Edgar..."
Peter Irvine, The Sunday Times

PUBLICATIONS:

Dictionary of Scottish Art and Architecture [2nd Edition] - Peter McEwan
Priors Court School Collection - Bohun Gallery Press