In
this episode the painter Chelsea Gibson and I discuss her musical
background, building a home and studio from the ground up and
dealing with criticism. Chelsea Gibson paints portraits of home.
Her paintings investigate what it means to call a place “home” and
how the lives lived there are interdependent on the spaces within.
She paints about the decision to live in such a rural community,
and what those choices look like for her friends and models. She is
interested in the dichotomy between highly representational and
abstract within each work. By investigating what it might feel like
to live in someone else’s shoes, Gibson learns from her models, and
by painting them she learns more about herself.