OUR ARTIST OF THE MONTH IS -

PiPPA SIBERT

I am a painter and printmaker and more recently have discovered the potential of working with textiles and stitch.

My art practise is predominantly about my emotional and physical relationship with the natural world.

I like to think of myself as a creative explorer.  My studio becomes my laboratory where I test out new ideas.   These evolve and transmute into images and resonate with deeply held memories and experiences about 'place', whether imagined or real.

My main driving force lies within 'potential' and 'possibility'.  I am always seeking out new ways to interpret my vast reservoir of stored imagery, via mark making, the use of colour and gesture, the serendipitous.

I was born in 1954 and spent my childhood in Harare, Zimbabwe.  I returned to the UK at the age of 11 and after spending most of my adult life visiting Wales, I became a permanent resident in 2001.  These differing and dramatic landscapes have made a deep and lasting impression on me.

In 1999 I graduated from the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, Surrey and in 2007 I gained an MA in Fine Art, with distinction, at the Aberystwyth School of Art.  

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