Ezekiel Gibbs, (1889-1992)  lived most of his life around the Houston area.  He lost both of his parents before he was six years old.  He never received a formal education, but lived life as a sharecropper and strong in religious faith.  He served for more than 50 years as deacon in Vernon Missionary Baptist church.  
He loved his family, friends, animals, farming and gardening where all are strongly represented in his paintings.
Ezekiel did not start doing art until he was 83 at the Senior Citizens Center.  His wife had passed and he started to revisit all of the memories of his life through painting.  His work is so beautiful and heartfelt in his execution of his life and his love of family and his accomplishments on the farm. His renditions of his horse and his garden are vivid subjects of admiration, where they are center, detailed and large in his compositions.
His work is reminiscent of  Marc Chagall's paintings in their dreamlike quality and with floating memories beautifully executed in watercolors and crayons.  
Ezekiel worked up until his passing in 1992 at the age of 103.
He was at one time the oldest living and working artist in Texas.
 He left behind a beautiful and important journal of his life in his paintings.

*The pieces below are in our current exhibit running at our West Texas location through the September 2025. Email us for details.