Patricia Gibson, a resident of Mead Oklahoma by way of Boulder, Colorado, is the Creative Arts Center Artist of the Month. Her realistic wire creations draw admiring, and amazed, responses from visitors to her exhibits.

“It’s very encouraging that people are after me to do this … folks seem to like what I do,” says artist Patricia Gibson. 

Anyone who has seen her sculptures will know that this is an understatement. 

Although Patricia is a native of Boulder, Colorado, and lived there most of her life, she relocated to Mead, Oklahoma in 2004. 

Her grandmother was a painter, so Patricia comes by her creative gift honestly. 

Patricia first tried her hand at art in 2003 while operating a sewing and pattern-making business.  She also has a deep love for living things and has been an avid gardener since the age of ten.

Her entry into bailing-wire sculpting was accidental.  While disposing of some surplus wire, she began to twist and form it into recognizable shapes.  She quickly discovered that she had a talent for this art form. 

Many of Ms. Gibson’s creations depict animals, but she finds herself doing more and more human sculptures. (With a smile she refers to her sculptures of people as her “action figures.”)  She finds this art form very rewarding. 

“I can do anything I want in wire,” says Patricia.

Patricia Gibson’s works are frequently displayed at Bonham’s Creative Arts Center.  At the time of this writing, she has a life-size piece for exhibition for Easter, 2009.  People who have not yet seen her sculptures owe it to themselves to do so.