Artist, printmaker, sewer, mama, grandma, godma, yogini, acupuncturist ,meditator, foodie, islander, loving books, words & pictures aiming @ conscious contact

 

Artist Bio:

 

In 1973, when I was just short of Twenty, I moved to Martha’s Vineyard. It has been home ever since.

 

In my early Twenties, I studied Printmaking at the Cape Cod Conservatory of Music and Art, Mass Art, and The Boston School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

 

In my Twenties, I lived on a boat and continued my studies through Goddard College’s Adult Degree Program (Plainfield, VT.) In January of 1980, shortly after the birth of my first child, I received my Bachelors Degree from Goddard. That child is now a designer, a maker of beautiful objects, and a mother of two children of her own.

 

In my Thirties I bought a Rembrandt etching press and put it in my kitchen; that is where I gave my first art classes. After a few years, shortly before the birth of my second child, I built a studio out back where I moved my press and taught drawing and simple printmaking to children and adults. That child is now a sailor, dock builder, and arborist.

 

Throughout these years I taught art to children through town enrichment programs as well as to elders through the island senior centers. In 1995 I spent two weeks at the Children’s Studio of the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, Russia, teaching children and adults. At the beginning of 1996 I was honored with the Creative Living Award by the Endowment for Martha’s Vineyard.

 

In my Forties, I established the printmaking studio for Featherstone Center for the Arts, in Oak Bluffs, where I taught monotype and relief printmaking.

 

Somewhere between my Thirties and Forties, Houghton Mifflin used my work for four of their book covers, and commissioned additional work for a pamphlet. In 1990 I self-published a small book called The Little Beastie, a fable for all ages.

 

Later in my Forties, I received my teaching certificate in Sivananda yoga, then continued on to study at the New England School of Acupuncture, graduating with a Masters Degree in Acupuncture just after I turned Fifty.

 

For the last ten years I have made art quietly in my studio while spending the bulk of my time practicing acupuncture and teaching yoga. During this time I started illustrating for each of Ali Berlow’s Cook’s Notebook essays in “edible Vineyard” magazine.

 

Over the last thirty-nine years I have shown my work in many Island galleries as well as in New Jersey, New Hampshire, Kansas and Cambridge, MA.

 

My art is a synthesis of all of my experiences expressed in visual form. I find so much benefit in the heart-felt sharing of others. It inspires me to do the same.

 

If you would like to see my pictures, please email me or give a call. You can also see them online at:

 

fae-kontje-gibbs-sketchbook.tumblr.com

 

www.ediblevineyard.com/index.php/community/artists/faye_k...

 

email: faellen@gmail.com

cell phone # 508-272-3932