Sara Margaret Gibson
Sarah Margaret Gibson was born in Cincinnati, OH, in 1988. Art has always been a
part of Gibson's life; she began to draw, almost incessantly, from the time she could
hold a pencil. At the age of eight she started formal lessons in drawing and painting
with private instructor, Sandy Sharp, from whom she gleaned her first introduction to
the basics of the craft. In the summer of 2003, Gibson spent her first of what would
become three consecutive summers at the Interlochen Center for the Arts' Intensive
Drawing and Painting program. It was at Interlochen that she was first introduced to
oil painting techniques, and her understanding of representational drawing and
painting greatly blossomed during her time there.
In the summer of 2007, the now 18-year-old Gibson embarked on a six-week
painting tour in Greece. Deeply inspired by the art and architecture of the Ancient
Greeks, Gibson felt more certain than ever of the direction she wanted to take with
her art. She began to believe that-just as is the case with musicians, writers, and
dancers-she, as a painter, could only express herself adequately once she had first
mastered the language of painting: technique.
After a brief period of study at the Maryland Institute College of Art in the Fall of
2007, Gibson realized that her deep and abiding interest in technique would best be
fostered by a community of like-minded individuals and a school that more closely
embodied her own ideals. Following the advice of one of her instructors, Gibson
discovered the traditional Atelier schools of Florence, Italy. Dedicated to training the
realist painter through methodology created in the Renaissance and used up
through the nineteenth century, these schools seemed an oasis to the aspiring
realist artist.
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