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Pinkhamryder (talk) 20:03, 18 August 2008 (UTC)== Carole Gibbons ==

Carole Gibbons, artist, currently living and working in Glasgow. A member of 'The Glasgow Group', that includes artistic luminaries such as, Alasdair Gray, Bet Low, Jack Knoz and Phillip Reeves.

Douglas Abercrombie wrote, ' ... the high quality of her work has not gone unnoticed by the people who "know" .' Although she is still largely unknown in the commercial arena, she has had influence on a crop of younger, emerging painters who recently studied painting at the Glasgow School of Art, excited by her commitment to painting, the quality of her work - it's slow, patient production - and her uncompromising tenacity.

She studied at the Glasgow School of Art between 1957- 1961 alongside Alan Fletcher, an important influence, whose life was cut tragically short in an accident in Italy, whilst on scholarship. In the latter stages of her artistic career, her work - not easily categorised - has slipped between the varying fashions dominating the contemporary art scene in Glasgow.

In the foreward to her catalogue for her last exhibition, in Edinburgh, 2003, Alasdair Gray wrote:

' C.G. became an artist when nearly all Scottish painters either supported themselves by teaching or emigrated. the only exceptions were those who inherited money or resigned themselves to poverty and neglect. Of the latter group some died early. thank goodness Carole and her talent have survived.

Her spiritual colleagues are painters as different as Munch, Bonnard and Braque. For like them she shows people and things coloured as much by her emotions as by the light of places where she works. Her still lives, mostly painted in Glasgow, are strong but melancholy interior harmonies where rich colours glow among sombre ones, from a time in Spain comes the warm radiance of her "Andalucian Vines", the airy luxury of "Studio Balcony". '

Pinkhamryder (talk) 20:03, 18 August 2008 (UTC)