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Issy Gibbs

A classically trained British artist. Specialising in portraiture, painted from life.

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About

I was born in 1998 and spent my formative years in Hampshire.

I graduated from Tudor Hall School, Oxfordshire in 2016; it was here that my interests in art were established.  That same year, I commenced my studies at the Charles H. Cecil Studios in Florence, Italy. 

There, I spent four years learning from Charles and his studio. I received training in the ‘sight-size’ technique, which we applied in both portraiture and figurative art. Broadly, this can be understood as a process whereby the canvas remains alongside the sitter, allowing the artist to achieve life-size and life-like portraits. This preeminent technique was developed and perfected by masters such as Diego Velazquez, Thomas Lawrence and John Singer Sargent, artists whom I greatly admire.

In 2020, after completing my studies I moved to the Chelsea Studios in London. I work here on various projects and commissions.

Exhibitions

2024 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2024 Bath Society of Artists, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath

2024 Women in Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London

2024 Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2024 Royal Society of British Artists, Mall Galleries, London

2023 Chelsea Art Society Summer Exhibition, London

2023 Society of Women Artists, Winner of Derwent Special Fine Art Young Artist Award, Mall Galleries, London

2023 ‘Babele’, Spazio Musa, Turin, Italy

2022 The South West Academy of Fine Art, Sidmouth

2022 CPRE Art Exhibition, Hampshire

2022 Green & Stone Summer Exhibition, London

2021 Artist in Residence, Spink & Son, London

2021 ING Discerning Eye Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2021 Ataxia UK, ‘Minds in Movement’, online Exhibition

2021 Hampstead Art Society, The Fitzrovia Gallery, London

2021 Finalist for ‘Future Generation Competition’, by the Portrait Society of America

2018 Charlie Waller Memorial Trust, Newbury

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