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Illustrations

1997
24 x 62mm
(Claudia Ferguson-Smyth)

Pattern: Pen & Brush

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About Jonathan

Jonathan Gibbs draws, paints, and makes prints. He works in oil on
wood panels primed with gesso and
makes some of his wood-blocks
for engraving using Holly, Box and Whitebeam. Gibbs’s illustrations
are seen in various settings: mural-
design, book illustration, editorial, advertising, pattern-design, packaging, web-design. His image
of a Scottish island has been printed in gold on a big green umbrella.
Gibbs has also designed letterheads, logotypes & bookplates.

Get In Touch
- Jonathan Gibbs United Kingdom
- hello (at) jonathangibbs.com

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Represented:
Central Illustration Agency

Exhibitions:
Saint Judes
Society of Wood Engravers
Curwen Gallery
Open Eye Gallery
Rowley Gallery

Short Review

Prudence Carlson

For all these linear elements, Gibbs has borrowed as much from contemporary British abstract sculpture — with its reliance upon an architectural logic and its own vocabulary of essentially two-dimensional... Read The Rest →

John Roberts

His preference in some of the collages for Byzantine or Russo-Greek shapes — long triangles, wedges, half moons, scimitar-like forms — and red-black positive-negative contrasts recalls the constructivist graphics of... Read The Rest →

Alan Powers

Pevsner characterises Blake with »flaming line«. As a painter and engraver alike, Gibbs is certainly a man of line, and like Blake, he keeps shapes and objects afloat in space... Read The Rest →

Thomas Wilson

In parallel with his teaching at Edinburgh College of Art (where he runs the Illustration Department) and his output as a painter, Jonathan Gibbs continues to produce a steady flow... Read The Rest →

Alan Powers

It is surely not coincidence that Jonathan Gibbs studied at Central St Martins (then under its old title of the Central School of Art and Design) where Noel Rooke effectively... Read The Rest →

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