Category Archives: surreal
Girl Eats Sun: Cover Art for Hope Tala
Album art for Hope Tala's Girl Eats Sun
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Canadian painter Stephen Gibb makes simple observation
Froze—by Canadian painter Stephen Gibb, 36″ x 36″, oil on panel, 2020 FROZE by Canadian painter Stephen Gibb The balance between survival and our relation with the environment is a give and take negotiation at its simplest state. Depletion, plunder and by-products that result from our “processing” of resources are ways in which we impact […]
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Surreal art and the pervasive nature of phobias
Surreal art and Phobias While pondering a fun house setting for a painting, I became aware that the whole reason for a fun house is to artificially induce fear in the patron. It became clear that fear or phobias would then become the central theme to the painting. Taking a smattering of common phobias and […]
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Surreal artist performs alchemy
The Canadian Pop Surrealism of Stephen Gibb and the theme of magic...
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Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow
Pop Surrealism and Lowbrow Pop Surrealism has a broad range of influences, a reverence for art history, an unsettling presence and a wicked sense of humour. One thing that unites the pop surrealist community is their comfortable and insatiable relationship with weirdness. If describing in words what is and what isn’t pop surrealism, one only […]
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Life’s a Trip
Cover art for Trippie Redd’s Life’s A Trip album, August, 2018. Life’s A Trip The initial design, grew and blossomed from this point of beginning (below)…eventually leading to the final artwork above. Combining symbolic characters in a colourful explosion of activity Stephen Gibb followed Trippie’s suggestions of making the cover something so visually dynamic that […]
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2018
2018 Paintings 2018 Return to main gallery 2015 paintings Stephen Gibb – Artist Statement (Or, at least a feeble attempt to excuse my behaviour to those present with good taste) My artwork weaves an eclectic tapestry of cultural and social influences. At one moment it may make a single-punch-line comment on pop culture while the […]
Anatomy of The Frog Prince At The Gates Of Decay
Frog Prince Anatomy: Analytical dissection of The Frog Prince At The Gates Of Decay To understand the motivation and source of my Frog Prince painting’s inspiration it’s probably best to break it apart and examine the bits close-up. The Frog Prince or the Prince Frog The central figure is the frog prince, which was chosen […]
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Surreal Life
Canadian Pop Surrealism may not be on the map, but give it some time...
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Pop Surrealism Lowbrow Painting Explores the Ego