Biography
Jade Gibson has an eclectic background which is reflected in her interests and work. She studied Fine Art Painting at Central Saint Martins School of Art, London, having changed from Medical Sciences to Art, and combines this with her research work into creativity within Anthropology of Art in which she has a PhD. She has lived and worked in different countries - the UK, North Africa, Trinidad and Tobago, Vanuatu in the South Pacific (working in an environmental centre while living in the rainforest for seven months), and South Africa, where she currently resides. She is half-Filipino and half-Scottish in ancestry. She has also written a novel, which she intends to publish. It is inevitable that her work reflects the precipice of life, the diversity and complexity of existence, the moments, emotions and energy of living infused with both its humour and its darkness, dancing, death, flight, freedom and the constraints of the conventional - moving from large to small, charcoal to acrylic to oils, 2-D to 3-D. She often combines her work with themes and pieces of creative writing, including poetry.
