Flowers with Blue Vase - Sybil Gibson Mexican Painted Hat

Painted Hat

I have included an essay along with stories and anecdotes from my close friendship with Mose

Mose Tolliver died October 31

" 3 Figures Gestural "   1992

Flowers with Blue Vase - Sybil Gibson Mexican Painted HatFlowers with Blue Vase Tempera on Paper Framed, Signed The simple subject matter of faces, flora and fauna are submerged in mystery. Line gives way to light where lyrical hues bleed as in the dome of a rural Alabama sky. Yet form emerges shy of abstraction, retaining the familiarity of distant memory. Evasive flowers become something immediate and urgent. The spirit like portraits which populate Gibson's work peer as if from behind a veil. 10" x 14"