Anthea McGibbon

BORN NOVEMBER 10, in the garden parish St. Ann, in Jamaica, W.I., Anthea D.A. McGibbon has worked as a feature co-ordinator, desk supervisor, subeditor, photographer, feature writer, art critic, graphic designer at the Caribbean’s leading newspaper for over 12 years. She has also been Content Editor of an online mediahouse, Negril.com.
However her skills and areas of expertise extend beyond journalism and public relations. She has served as secretary to organisations, and at one time for the Press Association of Jamaica. (Anthea McGibbon elected PAJ secretary), and too has managed, workshops, repackaged and done consultancy for artists along her numbered career paths.

In keeping with her name that means flower, the natural beauty of her environment is internalized making her the wellrounded artist she has been for over 15 years. As a fine artist, she photographs and paints images (from portraits, landscapes to flora) that comprises her pictoral essays on the world’s beauty and cultures, but more specifically within the Caribbean. See Photography on Creative shake.

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Anthea’s photographs in the Image list gallery – Cincopa style.

EXPERIENCE AND WORKS

Her most recent fine art works are the vibrantly colourful ‘Fertile Love’ series. Her contemporary art creations are exposed through Gallery Art, (TheaMac or Anthea McGibbon and Stacey McGibbon)  in Florida, where she also writes for their newsletters. She has worked commercially — using both illustration and photography in her assignments (from weddings, fashion, portraiture to marketing) and, today, offers a wide array of custom-made souvenir and gift items including greeting cards, post cards, tee shirts sets, bags, clocks, sandals. All a reflection of her high energy and flexibility in her love affair with the arts as she works relentlessly to satisfy her clients.

EDUCATION and TRAINING

A former student at the Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts, she has benefitted from mentors internationally – acclaimed artists – designers, photographers, and painters, and interns within US galleries. A member of the Professional Photographers of America , her skills as a teacher were honed at workshops and short courses she received throughout her life. Among them teacher courses held at her birth church, The Apostolic Church of Jamaica, where she taught and started her first art club throughout the island.

Her family, a family of trained educators and highly-skilled professionals are among her most influential teachers who contributed a great deal to her prolific traits. She completed Paralegal training, and, is a law student of the University of London.

Earlier in her life, she did modelling and choreographed a few shows of her own, and for the agency she once owned. She uses her combined skills in journalism, writing, paralegal and the arts to assist others and to promote Jamaica’s creative offerings. Having served at a manegerial level to various organisations including art director, Amerock Products, she is founding CEO of OAaSIS International Foundation.
 

NOTE: 15 per cent of all proceeds from jobs through this website is donated to OAaSIS International to asssit with furnishing art departments and clubs, and the creation of projects for the development of the creative minds and understanding of young Jamaicans.

SERVICES

Sought out for her passion, attention to detail and design in capturing her subjects, creative ideas, and writing skills, she also serves as a consultant,  hosting workshops internationally. Locally, she has founded several art clubs, and offers art and culture tours for locals and tourists, when possible. HER intimate affair with the arts makes her effective as a consultant to especially in promoting the untold skills of the visual artists. HER PASSIONS include art critic, artist repackaging and promotion, artist management, editing.
Anthea’s GREATEST MOMENTS include friends who have planned their wedding around her photo-shooting timetable, and those who’ve evidently benefited from her skills as art critic, teacher, and more.
She is inspired by the appreciation of many for her skills translated through their zeal to be better artists, or to assist in the development of others. Her clients, who vary are a reflection of her pride. 

SPECIAL PROJECTs

“I am driven to assist in the development and promotion of the creative mind of Jamaica’s youth and artists. Especially, after my own personal experiences and observations. I write for the Caribbean’s leading newspaper, The Gleaner’s Art and Culture, but where there are limitations in space, articles are posted to this site. Currently, my passions are leading me to record, the life and pathways of some of those who have been critical to the development of the art and culture history of my country.’ Anthea has traveled Caribbean countries, the USA and South Korea. Having completed her book NATURE’S SKETCHES — a series of her photographs, -a visual essay of her sojourns, packaged with lines of her thoughts, and poetry that express lessons learned along life’s varied path she has thus far explored.

“The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty” — Winston Churchill