Catherine Picard-Gibbs
Light in Motion
Catherine Picard-Gibbs creates contemporary oil paintings that transform landscapes, urban environments, and everyday scenes through vibrant color and expressive brushwork. Her paintings capture moments of light, atmosphere, and movement, balancing recognizable places with an energetic, gestural approach to paint.
Inspired by the nuances and drama of her surroundings, Picard-Gibbs looks closely at ordinary moments—a ripple of wind across water, sunlight striking a building, trees shifting in a landscape—and finds the potential for something more evocative. Her heightened color and richly textured surfaces turn these observations into emotionally charged images that hover between representation and abstraction.
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About the Work
Picard-Gibbs begins with close observation rather than a fixed subject. Natural and built environments become opportunities to notice changes in light, color, weather, movement, and atmosphere, with seemingly ordinary moments providing the starting point for her paintings. Her landscapes may suggest a specific place while remaining open to memory, mood, and interpretation.
Her oil paintings are built through bold brushwork and layers of richly textured color. She works not only with brushes but also with her gloved hands and fingers, building up and scratching into the surface to create marks and physical variation within the paint. More recently, she has explored oil on copper, using the reflective quality of the metal to introduce another dimension of light and luminosity.
Across landscapes, urban scenes, and interiors, Picard-Gibbs uses heightened color and expressive marks to communicate movement and emotion. Figures, trees, buildings, water, and light are simplified or intensified rather than rendered literally, allowing the paintings to occupy a space between observation and abstraction.
Biography
Catherine Picard-Gibbs is an American contemporary oil painter based in Western Massachusetts. Picard-Gibbs originally worked as a graphic designer before transitioning to a full-time fine art practice. She has traveled throughout the American Southwest, France, and Italy, painting on site and studying art history, experiences that continue to inform her interest in place, landscape, and visual atmosphere.
Picard-Gibbs has exhibited extensively throughout Massachusetts and nationally, with work appearing in juried and group exhibitions across the United States. Her exhibitions include presentations at Fountain Street Gallery, Western New England University Gallery, Brooks Gallery at Christ Church Cathedral, and other galleries throughout New England, New York, and the Midwest. She is also a licensed art educator in Massachusetts and continues to explore the relationship between observation, color, texture, and expressive painting.
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