Gabriel Summers Art for Sale at Auction

b. 1962 -

Gabriel Summers, painter, etcher and dealer-researcher, was born in Dorset, the grandson of the artists Gerald and Nora Summers. Summers' interest in art was encouraged as a child and he won an art scholarship to Canford School, 1975-80, where he was taught by Robin J Noscoe. He graduated in the history of art at Reading University, 1980-83 and gained his masters in that subject at the Courtauld Institute, 1983-84, concentrating on British romantic art, a continuing interest. In 1990, Summers was featured in the episode 'In Search of Bohemia', part of the BBC television 'Abroad in Britain' series, with Jonathan Meades. Group shows included 'Nudes for St Valentine', Bartley Drey Gallery, 1996; 'Contemporary British Art', The Millinery Works, 2003; and 'Little Venice Drawing Group', The Clifton Gallery, 2003. He had solo exhibitions at Odd Fellows Hall, Wimborne, 1997, and Canford School Library, 1999.