Patrick Gibbs was born in London in 1959. He says his art career started promisingly when he won a pencil-case in a primary school painting competition. Despite this early sucess Patrick managed to fail his Art O-level and says he only just scraped through at Art A-level standard. After this Gibbs studied at Ruskin School of Drawing and Magdalen College, Oxford where despite the best efforts of the tutors to turn him an Abstract Expressionist painter he painted mostly portraits and figures.

After University Patrick Gibbs lived in Germany for a year, working on building sites and teaching English, before deciding that he wanted to be a painter. Gibbs bought a beaten-up old van, filled it with art materials, and spent the next few years driving around Europe teaching himself to paint landscapes. The highlight of Patrick's travels was a year spent in Tarquinia, a beautiful medieval village north of Rome. Here he devoted himself to painting almost everything he saw financing his time by drawing street portraits.

Back in London, after a brief spell of teaching Art in schools, Patrick Gibbs decided to paint full time. Since then Patrick has become known for his carefully observed and emotive paintings. Inspiration for his paintings comes from his extensive travels around the world. He excels at painting everyday scenes in exotic places such as Cuba, Madagascar, Kerala or Zanzibar, but he is also an accomplished painter of portraits and landscapes. Gibbs paints whatever inspires him and the result is a collection of art work of outstanding quality and variety.

Patrick Gibbs has a large following of loyal art collectors always vying for his work. In addition to Red Rag Modern Art Gallery Patrick Gibbs art work has been exhibited at other leading British Art Galleries. Each painting at Red Rag is sourced from the Patrick Gibbs artist studio and like all Red Rag Modern British art it can be shipped worldwide.