Born in 1954, she attended the Hertfordshire College of Art before going on to the Canterbury College of Art where she studied under the Scots painter Thomas Watt. The qualities his work was renowned for - exquisite colour and a magical senses of light - can be seen in her paintings too. She was awarded a first class honours degree in Fine Art Painting from Canterbury and then went on to obtain a post graduate art teacher certificate from the University of Wales.
Gibson now divides her time between teaching and painting. She works en plein air with speed and accuracy in two hour stretches and rarely, if ever, reworks or retouches her statements. She is inspired by The Brecon region where she now lives. In 2006 she received two Arts Council of Wales grants, to undertake an advanced support programme with Swansea Print Workshop and to help fund her touring exhibition at three venues in Wales. In 2007 she travelled to Pakistan to attend the opening of two touring exhibitions; the Contemporary Welsh Printmakers exhibition in Karachi and SPW in Islamabad. Its was in that year that she became a member of the Welsh Group and Group 75. Gibson exhibits throughout Britain, from Cardiff to London to Bristol and Suffolk and is now regularly well represented in Pembrokeshire at the West Wales Arts Centre.
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