About me

Pat Gibson is an artist, art educator and former Curator of Exhibitions at the Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre. She is co-founder/ co-curator of Oxford County Art Project: Art in Public Spaces. Gibson has exhibited her mixed media work in numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Ontario. Her work is in public and private collections throughout Canada and the USA.

"I have a strong feeling that just beyond our senses there is something magical about life, something very subtle yet powerful. My work has become a search for that mysterious part of myself and my world."

Contact

I can be reached via email at patgibson@execulink.com for any inquiries.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 WATER COLUMN, St Thomas Elgin Art Centre
2021 Gesture, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre
2020 Welcome Back, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre
2018 Aira, Westland Gallery, London ON
2017 Estuary, Station Arts Centre, Tillsonburg ON
2014 Sky Over Garden, Westland Gallery, London ON
2012 Oxford County Art Project (invitational)
2011 Waterwall, STRAND Fine Art, London ON
2010 QUEST, Woodstock Art Gallery
2007 Works on Mylar, Thielsen Gallery, London Ontario
2004 Layered Water Dance, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock ON
2001 Silver Lake, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, Ingersoll ON
2000 Breaking the Mold, Woodstock Art Gallery
1999 Photo Grid, Royal Botanical Gardens, Hamilton ON
1997 Photo Grid, Station Arts Centre, Tillsonburg ON
1994 Red Screen Door, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock ON
1993 Memories: drawing on photography, Woodstock Little Theatre
1993 Red Screen Door, Carnegie Gallery, Dundas Ontario
1990 Drawing on Photography, Auberge Due Petit Prince, London ON
1990 Memories: Drawing on Photography, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre
1988 Messages, Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock ON
1987 Paintings, Woodstock Little Theatre, Woodstock ON
1985 Changing Sounds, Resourse Art Centre, London ON
1985 Drawing, Norman Galleries, Woodstock ON
1984 Looking for the Happy Garden, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre
1981 Woodstock Art Gallery, Woodstock Ontario
1978 Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre, Ingersoll Ontario

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Burgess Park, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
2024 Gardens, Westland Gallery, London ON
2023 Rivers and Ponds, Westland Gallery, London ON
2022 Landscapes, Westland Gallery, London ON
2021 Westland Gallery, London ON
2020 Home, Westland Gallery, London ON
2019 Up With Art, London Museum
2018 Woodstock Art Gallery permanent collection
2018 The Flora and Ian Tripp Collection, McIntosh Gallery, London ON
2016-2019 (group shows) Shane Norrie Contemporary Stratford ON
2016 Landscapes, INGERSOLL COMMUTE Westland Gallery, London (2 artists)
2014 Frozen Record, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
2011 BIRDSONG, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
2009 The Art of Collage, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)
2009 Go Figure, (2 artists) Bright’s Grove ON and The Art Exchange, London ON
2008 Aeolian Hall, London ON (invitational )
2007 Go Figure, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
2004 Sky over Silver Lake, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
2003 the WATER exhibition, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)
1999 Square Roots, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
1999 Thielsen Galleries, London ON
1998 Thielsen Galleries, London ON 1998
1998 From Word to Image, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)
1997 Grid Work, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (invitational)
1996 Tread Works, Woodstock Art Gallery (invitational)
1994 Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)
1993 Annual Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery
1991 ART AT THE GRASS ROOTS - Creative Artists in Schools
1990 OTTAWA ART EXCHANGE - Canada Day Exhibition, Ottawa ON
1990 Community Arts Network - Woodstock Art Gallery
1988 Oxford County Collects, Woodstock Art Gallery
1987 CREATIVE ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS SHOW, Erindale Campus Art Gallery, Toronto ON
1983 Woodstock Connection, Cambridge Art Centre, Cambridge ON (4 artists)
1993 Annual Western Ontario Exhibition, London Regional Art Gallery
1982 Womanspirit Art Gallery, London ON (2 artists)
1981 St Thomas - Elgin Art Gallery (3 artists)
1976 Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre (2 artists)

AWARDS

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL: CREATIVE ARTISTS IN SCHOOLS

Projects - 1985, 1987, 1987, 1988, 1990

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL Exhibition Assistance (numerous)
WESTLAND GALLERY, London: Miniatures 2013, 2014, 2015 Jurors Choice
ARTFORMS `80, Jurors` Honorable Mention, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
ARTWORKS, Cambridge Art Centre 1981 PURCHASE AWARD
OXFORD COUNTY ANNUAL JURRIED EXHIBITION, Woodstock Art Gallery

JURORS` CHOICE 2019, 2017, 2008 HM, 2005, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1982, 1981, 1979

GALLERY LAMBTON, Sarnia ON - JURORS` HONORABLE MENTION 2005
NORFOLK ART CENTRE, Simcoe ON - JURORS CHOICE 2005
NEWELL AWARD 2000 Outstanding contribution to Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre

COLLECTIONS

WOODSTOCK HOSPITAL
WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY
McINTOSH GALLERY Western University London ON
CAMBRIDGE ART CENTRE
CIL PAINTS
UPPER THAMES RIVER CONSERVATION INC.
WOODSTOCK POLICE STATION
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS in CANADA and USA

EDUCATION

Ontario Teacher`s Certificate/ Visual Arts 1&2 Faculty of Education U.W.O. 1993
Fine Art –Drawing and Painting, Oxford County Board of Education Night School 1970-72
Watercolour with Marion Drysdale, Ingersoll Creative Arts Centre 1974-76
Fanshawe College Extension Courses, London ON 1974-76

CAREER DEVELOPMENT

OXFORD COUNTY ART PROJECT: Art in Public Spaces, Co-founder Co-curator 2009-2011
FOREST CITY GALLERY, London ON, Preparator - Gay Sensibilities 1996
WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY: EDUCATION OFFICER, 1988-1990
WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY: Guest Curator Children`s Art - from Ontario Arts Council-Creative Artists in Schools projects 1985, 1987
INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE, Curator of EXHIBITIONS 1982-2019
- JUROR, 1997 Photography Exhibition, 2019 Craft Award Members Exhibition
- CHAIRPERSON, 1987-1989

TEACHING: CHILDREN`S ART

ONTARIO ARTS COUNCIL Creative Artists in Schools of Oxford County 1985-1990
INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE: 2000-2006 Young at Art with Ingersoll Schools
WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY, Drawing and Painting for Children and Teens 1984-1994
GLENHYRST ART GALLERY OF BRANT, Teens Drawing 2000
FANSHAWE COLLEGE, Summer Art Workshop 1994-1995
OXFORD COUNTY BOARD of EDUCATION, Art Grades 1-6 1990-1999

TEACHING: ADULT WORKSHOPS

FANSHAWE COLLEGE, Watercolour, Crouch Library, London ON 1989
Drawing and Painting, Woodstock Campus 1984
WOODSTOCK ART GALLERY, Meet the Artist, 1994, 2004, 2010. Drawing Workshop, 1984
INGERSOLL CREATIVE ARTS CENTRE, Creative Drawing and Painting 1982-2004 2008
OXFORD COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION, Night School 1973-1977
LONDON GALLERY PAINTING GROUP, 1986

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY (News & Publications)

London Free Press, Art April 2022
London Free Press, Art June 2020
UP WITH ART catalogue April 2019
Impact Western University, summer2018
Flora and Ian Tripp Collection by Debra VanBrenk
London Free Press, Art Joe Belanger Nov 2018
Oxford Review by R.B.Flowers Nov 2017
London Free Press, Art May 2016
Woodstock Sentinel - Review by Megan Stacey May 2016
Sentinel Review June 2016
London Free Press, On the Canvas May 2014
London Free Press Arts Kathy Rumleski Jan 2011
Quest Exhibition - Brochure, Patricia Deadman Sept 2010
Woodstock Cable TV Sept 2010
Sarnia This Week Steve Coleman June 2009
Ingersoll Times Clay to Canvas Sept 2007
Scene Magazine Thielsen Galleries 2007
Ingersoll Times Geoff Dale Feb 1997
Sentinel Review Richard Moule Aug 1994
Ingersoll Times Abbey Vint Aug 1994
Sentinel Review 1999
ART AT THE GRASS ROOTS catalogue Nancy Hazel Grove 1991