Born in Sheffield, Gosney first trained as an architect at The Bartlett UCL, specialising later in light and lighting. During her student days she explored colour psychology and took life drawing at the Slade. She became interested in the work of Barbara Hepworth when she 'discovered' Monolyth on Hampstead Heath and lived locally to the artists studio in Belsize Park. This fascination led a trail to Cornwall and the Hepworth Garden. The holes and hollows framing nature led to experimentation with forms and their shadows. This was initially with photography, then furniture with inset glass in holes folllowed, to explore light passing through solid. Since 1985 Gosney has regularly visited St Ives with her mother and has had a home in Penwith since the 1990s, where her sea view is her 'thinking space'.