{"id":6,"date":"2021-06-23T18:04:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-23T18:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/?page_id=6"},"modified":"2023-03-10T13:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T13:49:13","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/?page_id=6","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap body-colour wp-block-paragraph\">Heather Libson lives and works in East London.\u00a0Trained at Leeds Beckett University and with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art, she has exhibited her paintings across Britain and is represented in UK collections including The British Museum, Texaco and The Economist. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include Die Kleine Steinfelder Galerie, Germany (2022) and \u2018The World Slips By\u2019 Highgate Gallery (2023). In her paintings, the ephemerality of life and the memory and texture of sensory experience are evoked through layers of transparent colour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-86\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-924x1386.jpg 924w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-671x1007.jpg 671w, https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/IMG_7342-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"bodyhead-colour wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Selected awards:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-colour wp-block-paragraph\">Kearney Art Award; Villiers David Travel Award; Falkiner Fine Paper Award (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers); Joseph Webb Award (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bodyhead-colour wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Has taught at:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-colour wp-block-paragraph\">Croydon College; Winchester School of Art; University of Gloucestershire; Leeds Beckett University; Ulster University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"bodyhead-colour wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Education in schools:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"body-colour wp-block-paragraph\">Libson works as an artist-educator in schools in East London.&nbsp; These residencies, commissions, workshops and teacher mentoring make a significant impact on the cultural and artistic practice in the schools.<br><br><em>Photo: Heather McDonough<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Libson lives and works in East London.\u00a0Trained at Leeds Beckett University and with an MA in Fine Art from Chelsea School of Art, she has exhibited her paintings across Britain and is represented in UK collections including The British Museum, Texaco and The Economist. Recent and forthcoming exhibitions include Die Kleine Steinfelder Galerie, Germany [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-6","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":711,"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6\/revisions\/711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/heatherlibson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}