Kathy Gibson

Work Description:
Oils

Biography:
From just pencil sketching to stretching the limits of cold wax/oil point - the exploration of art never ends! The possibilities are limitless when imagination, passion and daring calescence on canvas. That's been my journey for almost 15 years. I have found workshops, classes at art centers around the DC area and the Eastern Shore, visiting museums, and studying the masters, to be the driving force as I have graduated from creating murals, painting plein air to immersion in abstraction.
My work has been shown in Chicago, Baltimore, Michigan, and Pennsylvania and internationally in Scotland, as well as many local venues.

My artistic journey has its genesis about a decade ago. Primarily self taught, I participated in classes and workshops at The Art League in Alexandria, VA; Maryland Hall; Black Rock Center for The Arts, and many locations on the Eastern Shore. Since moving to Berlin, MD, my painting has become my central focus. This area is ripe with images, the ocean, the harbors, the farmlands and the light which is relatively unclouded by urban air pollution.

Discovering the exhilaration of Plein Air painting had been a true joy. Nothing replaces that immediacy of painting THAT moment, capturing THAT scent at THAT time despite all that swirls around the easel.

To open that square of canvas to a form or an idea is exquisite. Abstracting these is a new found avenue. What an adventure...painting.

To quote Blair Vaught-Gruler,
I, myself, am transient, like the moment, like my body, whether I like it or not. But while I am here, I feel a compulsion to make meaning. The repetitive movements of manipulating paint, with body motions that are personal and meaningful, manifest an encounter with the present in which I feel relevant and lucid. In paint I situate myself, and my experience of the world. In paint, I exist.