The Art That Waited: Alison Gibbs on Styling a Life — and What Still Calls Her (S8 E8)
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She built a career shaping the world around her — homes, images, stories.
But the work she left behind is calling again.
Before the magazine spreads. Before the styled rooms and written words. Alison Gibbs was an artist.
She studied at Glasgow School of Art, ready to build a life with brush and canvas. But life — motherhood, partnership, and creative work — shifted her path. She became a teacher, then a stylist, then a writer — shaping magazine features, collaborating behind the lens, and helping others tell their visual stories. Her career unfolded in creativity, but always just one step removed from her own original voice.
Now, in her 60s, with the family home sold and a new chapter quietly unfolding, the unfinished work is stirring.
In this episode, Alison talks about early ambition, creative redirection, and what it means to approach 60 not with reinvention, but with intention. We unpack managing life’s significant challenges and changes, rediscovering one’s artistic purpose, and how it’s never too late to reconnect with the passion you once set aside.
This is a story about beauty, restraint, and the discipline of waiting until the time is right.
She hasn’t returned to the canvas yet.
But she’s facing it.
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