This body of work is a dialogue between geometry, surface, and texture — an exploration of how elemental materials and modernist structure can coexist in balance and tension. Each piece serves as both an individual statement and part of a larger visual language, tied together through contrasts of precision and spontaneity, permanence and impermanence, order and entropy.
My artistic viewpoint and practice attempt to fuse balance within tension. My practice as an abstract and mixed-media artist begins with line—precise, geometric, often symmetrical—and meets the raw, unpredictable qualities of texture, surface, and material. Through this meeting point, I create visual languages that are at once controlled and untamed, familiar yet surprising.
I am deeply influenced by the aesthetic philosophies of mid-century modern design, which valued simplicity, form, and structure, but I also lean into the irregularities of the natural world. I use washes, layering, and chemical reactions to coax surfaces into unexpected finishes. These processes embrace chance and imperfection, resulting in works that cannot be fully planned or repeated. Every canvas or board becomes an experiment in material dialogue—where the line is deliberate, but the surface pushes back with its own voice.
Symmetry plays a recurring role in my work, not as a way of imposing rigidity but as a means of grounding the compositions in harmony. Against this structural framework, textures can fracture, ripple, and dissolve. This contrast allows viewers to experience the dualities that inspire me: order and chaos, permanence and erosion, the industrial and the organic.
Each piece becomes an invitation to slow down and observe these intersections. The tactile quality of my surfaces encourages not just seeing, but feeling—an echo of concrete, stone, water, or weathered metal. In these works, the boundaries between designed structure and environmental spontaneity blur, reflecting the way human life is constantly negotiating its relationship with nature, time, and materiality.
Ultimately, my art is about connection—between elements, between textures and forms, and between viewer and work. I want people to feel both anchored and unsettled, to experience the beauty of symmetry while being drawn into the roughness of its surface. It is in this liminal space—between control and surrender—that my practice thrives.
Jeff Sibbett is a self-taught artist, working out of his home studio in Lancaster, PA. His artistic portfolio grows in the avenue of abstract and multimedia arts. Many of his works speak to the homeostasis of line constraint, highly visual textures, laced with the raw material aesthetics. Furthermore, Jeff experiments with various washes and chemical processes to achieve the unique finishes applied to his works.
His most current body of work combines industrialism and raw organics, with mid-century modern echoes. Jeff’s aim is to advocate that structured, line markings and organic texture can coexist. Although his works are usually symmetrical in their aesthetic, this balance is a fabric to contain, and give room, to those adjacent textures, tones and voices within the pieces.