Jagu Gibson
- Fine Artist

Jagu Gibson studied in the Fine Arts Faculty painting department, of MSU, in Vadodara and graduated in 1994.

In ’94 she graduated and had her first exhibition in Mumbai at the British Council Gallery, Nariman Point. Immediately after this, Jagu and her husband Peter, moved to the UK where they settled in ‘Kashmir’ of the UK, the Lake District. Here she started experimenting with mixed media in her new studio. During this time she was awarded a scholarship, and was invited to join a group of artist’s who traveled to the former East Germany to take part in an artist’s workshop.

As Jagu has developed an interest in photography she has learnt that visual ‘textures’ we find in the natural world around us are able to be captured in photographs. These can be digitised via tools on the computer and she can use her techniques to extract those essential elements to be incorporated in her compositions.

Since her last exhibition she has travelled to Ladakh and gathered new material in the form of textures she captured from the arid landscapes. Polished rocks scribed with lines of bright coloured minerals, turbulent water and many other textures where recorded for her repertoire of references.

Over the past year she has worked on these harsh material textures and delved into their harmony, sometimes combining sometimes contrasting. In the process she is revealing the nature of these found objects with her own interpretation of each elements’s harsh or harmonious quality.