Although Jonathan Gibbs has lived and worked in Scotland for a number of years, he acknowledges the importance of the »churches, fields, shorelines and elements of landscape from East Norfolk, where my family comes from«. At first sight, his paintings and... Read The Rest →
Two Edinburgh Artists: Jonathan Gibbs and Andrew Restall — Jonathan Gibbs works as an illustrator; he lectures in Illustration at Edinburgh College of Art. But you would never know (as I did not until I was about to leave) that most... Read The Rest →
The twentieth century has seen a remarkable revival in the art of wood engraving. Where Blake and Bewick left off, a number of artists have continued the tradition, manipulating the medium and carving out significant reputations at the forefront of relief... Read The Rest →
Jonathan Gibbs’s fifth solo exhibition at his venue was, in fact, the first to include an extensive collection of wood engravings. According to the exhibition brochure »… his images refer to things seen and remembered, from nature and from the imagination.... Read The Rest →
This is an exhibition that does, in a positive way, remind you of things. Jonathan Gibbs’s images straddle the line between abstract and narrative, so that as you look at the thirty or so small works in his one-man show at... Read The Rest →
The predominant colours throughout this exhibition are shades of blue — lapis, aquamarine, slate-grey through to grey-grey, curiously reminiscent of Alfred Wallis’s coastal paintings of St Ives with their ink-blue ships and houses. Gibbs’s paintings are more or less abstract, though... Read The Rest →
