Patricia Gibson
My photography explores the idea of the garden (and by extension nature's landscape) as a personal Eden - a paradise, a spiritual connection with nature. I study how we relate to nature through our gardens and what that evokes. With the flower's blooming comes the knowledge of its impending death as well as its eventual renewal. Working the soil provides a spiritual connection with the mysteries of life that we find difficult to understand. The ethereal quality of what we find in our relationship with the garden, the visceral pleasures that await us there, awakening all our senses, exposes us to a surreal world of lush colour, growth, challenge and chaos. I visually seek to find stillness, astonishment and beauty within that world which at close inspection appears alien and never ceases to amaze me.
Kristina Bengtsson • Saskia Coulson • Lotte Fløe Christensen • Patricia Gibson • Rosalyn Gomersall • John Hughes Devlin • Ross Ireland • Amy J. Barkley • Simen J. Helsvig • Kjetil Karlsholmen • Gavin Maitland • Salome Oggenfuss • Katherine Rose • Colin Tennant • Jessica Wicker • Alan Williams • Ruth Wismayer •
Camberwell College of Arts
BA (Hons) Photography
Cleveland College of Art & Design
BA (Hons) Photography
Dublin Institute of Technology
BA (Hons) Photography
Edinburgh College of Art
BA (Hons) Visual Communication - Photography