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Bibi S. Brion was born in 1973 in “de Pijp,” a vibrant multi-cultural neighborhood in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Most of her life revolved in and around Amsterdam for work in media and fashion, painting and as a musician in several rock bands. She met her husband(from Liberty, Pennsylvania) in Amsterdam while he was there establishing a business. They lived in Tokyo, Japan for a short while and in 2008 the couple got married and moved to his home town in rural, northern Pennsylvania. Today, they live and work in a renovated farmhouse with their two sons.
Bibi has had a lifelong affinity for art and music and she began painting professionally in 2012. Bibi is self taught, having devised a rigorous learning plan to compensate for a lack of formal training. She is very driven to dramatically grow her art, while balancing painting with the joy of her young family. Bibi’s first solo show was held in 2014 at the Gmeiner Arts and Cultural Center in Wellsboro, PA, and coincided with the birth of her first son. Since then she has participated in various smaller shows, winning awards in each juried show entered. She paints full time in her home studio and en plein air.
Artist StatementI live in a remote farmhouse on land that is being reclaimed by nature.
The few remaining dairy farms in the area are rapidly being encroached by the growing forest. A few miles away, in the small town that holds our post office, there are the remains of factories so long out of use, it doesn’t occur to most people that they had ever been factories at all. Remaining from better times are a bank, a small grocery store, the post office, a candy store where there used to be a barbershop and a bakery caffee housed in the former hardware store. Just outside of town, a country store, Dollar General and a gas station cater to the interstate highway exit. No red lights. This contrasts starkly with my native Amsterdam and Tokyo, Japan, the last places I have lived. Now I long for a life with access to a wide variety of art, music, food and people; one that is full and vibrant. Living in a place of solitude where civilization seems to be losing its battle with nature has forced me to explore my personal experience with Place. My work can be regarded as a traditional presentation of coarse and challenging rural life, beautiful in all its ugliness with run-down barns and dilapidated houses, framed by nature's vibrant onslaught. At the same time, it is a very personal presentation of the duality in truth. I seek to share opposing and conflicting emotions in my subjects, finding excitement in the mundane, goodness in neglect, consolation in sadness, and beauty in decay. These themes mirror my life experience over the past decade of finding growth in what is maddening, safety in embracing risk and celebrating diversity in the face of ignorance. It is my evolving understanding of these truths that underpin and drive my current work. Contact: [email protected]
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To view my paintings and stories about them, visit my blog.
Visit my studio:
Paintings can also be viewed and purchased in person in my studio in Liberty, PA (zipcode 16930).
Email me at: [email protected]
Prints:
Prints and postcards of some of my paintings can be ordered through fineartamerica.com
To view my paintings and stories about them, visit my blog.
Visit my studio:
Paintings can also be viewed and purchased in person in my studio in Liberty, PA (zipcode 16930).
Email me at: [email protected]
Prints:
Prints and postcards of some of my paintings can be ordered through fineartamerica.com
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Contact: [email protected]
