Annabel Pearl is an artist, illustrator and writer living and working in Suffolk.

Annabel loves drawing and painting in all of their forms and has exhibited nationally and internationally. 

Her Fine Art PhD at Chelsea and MA at Central St Martins related to drawing, objects and memory and gift giving.  

She started drawing greetings cards for Smythson of Bond St and Selfridges in 1998 while in her final year of art college and her private clients include Hollywood actors and members of the royal household. 

She is often commissioned by private clients to make unique, heartfelt gifts that celebrate and commemorate significant moments of life; birth, death, marriage, loss and ultimately, love. 

For The Merchant’s Table Annabel makes pieces that capture the beauty of rural Suffolk and the imagery of the sublime on hand painted letterpress and unique ceramic treasures to place in your cherished home. 

(Annabel illustrates under her married name- Annabel Pearl. )Pearl is a Jewish surname that comes from ‘Pearl Merchant’, a name she loves because it symbolises beauty from grit.