Sander Gibson

Sander Gibson, the author’s brother, was born in Laurinburg, North Carolina. Having developed a passion for art early in life, he entered East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina as an art major; attended Ringling School of Art in Sarasota, Florida; and was awarded a BFA in Painting and Printmaking at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Additionally, he completed coursework at the Lyme Academy of Art, Old Lyme, Connecticut and North Carolina State University’s School of Design for Architecture. He has studied with sculptor Peter Agostini and portrait painter Aaron Shickler.

Sander has taught classes in painting, life-drawing, etching, and sculpture. He participated in the Third Century Artist Program of the North Carolina Arts Council in the late seventies. Besides one-man exhibitions, his work has been included in the North Carolina Annual Artists Exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Annual Artists Exhibition at the Fayetteville Museum of Art, and the Raleigh Fine Arts Society Exhibition at Meredith College in Raleigh, North Carolina. His work is included in private and corporate collections in this country, the West Indies, England, and the Middle East.

Sixteen years her senior, Sander affectionately referred to his younger sister Anne as his "little flower" or "prickly pear," depending on her mood.

Sander lives with his wife and daughter in Blowing Rock, North Carolina.

Books

Flight: of butterflies and robins and other winged dreams

$23.95

A collection of forty-eight poems that chronicle a young woman’s self-discovery.

written by Anne Poarch

illustrated by Sander Gibson

Flight: of butterflies and robins and other winged dreams is a very personal collection of forty-eight poems. This thoughtful work chronicles the voice of a maturing young woman as she reawakens her heart and soul to the beauty of God’s natural world. She uncovers love, grief, self-awareness, and a happiness for which she is utterly unprepared. Bridging an out-of- doors childhood and the death of her father at age eleven, to a motherhood in which she longs to share all of nature with her young sons, the pages will surprise you and inspire you. To open these poems is to take a walk through the seasons, to pause and reflect on the intersection of the spiritual and physical, the love of parent and child. Placed mostly within the backdrop of Richmond, Virginia, words are arranged, not by academic instruction, but by feeling and emotion. Poems are shared with a voice of appreciation and awe, all the while wondering if the ephemeral dreams of love, joy, and beauty can be sustained. Or is that the lesson the young woman learns from her butterfly? As Anne Poarch expresses, none of us need try and hold beauty, because we all carry her in our hearts and souls.

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