Chester Makes Drawings

For many years I have been making Olfactive drawings. I smell perfumes and let the scent transport me into a world of shapes and colors – I have been using scent as a vessel for years. At one point I felt that – instead of smelling only perfumes that I had bought in a perfumery- it could be an adventurous journey to find out if I could express myself through scent. That’s when I decided to dive…

The neoclassical Chateau de Courriere was built in 1840, most likely based on a design by the Tournai architect Bruno Renard. The castle is located in a park that is partly enclosed by a high wall and a pond. The 3 hectare site has a beautiful orangery, a garage and an old barn. The park is ecologically managed in accordance with the guidelines of Les Eco-Jardins du Parc Naturel Plaines de…

“Gonna take a scented mental journey Gonna set my heart at ease
… Gonna take a scented mental journey. To renew old memories “ retake on Sentimental Journey by Doris Day Scent is visceral and its primal…it’s about coming to life! How do we visualize what we smell?
Does scent – the invisible make you perceive the visible in a different manner?
 I started this drawing a few years ago after…

Scentology (noun) Rituals, spirituality lead by scent around us and a profound believe in its meaning and its way to give insight into life and how to live right. The path of scent.  I have been using perfumes and scents to help me create my drawings by allowing scent to set a mood. By using scent as a portal into making drawing the relation between my visual expression and what I smell becomes…

Bouquet de Bury- The Joy Of Each New Sunrise

Where I’m one with every grand illusionNo disturbance, no intrusionWhere I let the wistful sounds seduce me – ( I let the music Speak, ABBA) Bouquet de Bury- Parfum d’InterieurMade exclusively for Chateau de Courriere in Bury , Belgium; Bouquet de Bury cheerful floral woody perfume for the home with a green fruity opening. The neoclassical Chateau de Courriere was probably built in 1840 after a…

Heart above my Head / Unison

Fools rush in, where angels fear to treadAnd so I come to you my loveMy heart above my headThough I see the danger thereIf there’s a chance for meThen I don’t care – John Mercer Spell 125 by Papillon perfumes: How can I explain what I smell? Seven years ago I made a drawing titled In Rapture , inspired by the haunting Anubis perfume by Papillon . Perfumer Liz Moore’s latest creation Spell 125…

When you close your eyes and you go to sleepAnd it’s down to the sound of a heartbeatI can hear the things that you’re dreamin’ aboutWhen you open up your heart and the truth comes outYou tell me that you want meYou tell me that you need meYou tell me that you love meAnd I know that I’m right‘Cause I hear it in the night Talking in your sleep- The Romantics For a while I have been wearing…

Dreams of scented ropes ,30x30cm mixed media on paper . 2020 Chester Gibs

If I could turn back The hands of time I’d make you Fall in love In love with me again

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s …Gone

Don’t it always seem to go that you don’t know what you’ve got ’til it’s …Gone -Joni Mitchell

Perfume and Music are the two art forms that share a power that is very strong ; within seconds both fragrance and music can…

But every time it rains You’re here in my head Like the sun coming out Ooh, I just know that something good is going to happen And I don’t know when But just saying it could even make it happen

-‘Cloud Busting’, Kate Bush

I love japanese art and especially the old woodblock prints.This drawing I made right after an online japanese lesson. Right after the lesson ended, I watched a live stream by…

Scents And Sounds / The Magic Nocturnal

‘Follow your emotions anywhere Is it really magic in the air? Searching for a destiny that’s mine There’s another place another time Touching many hearts along the way yeah Hoping that I’ll never have to say It’s just an illusion’ Illusion, Imagination

I am half dutch half IndonesianMy mum is from bandung, Java and she spent over 5 years ling on the wonderful island Bali during her twenties before…

Too Tender To Touch / Meet me at #35

“You and I together now, forever after only, yes; A staring smile, a frozen face, a photograph of lasting love That never knew a nicer place than tucked inside my pillowcase

A little sign to guide the way; We don’t need so very much”

Too Tender To Touch, Lene Lovich

Last year Amsterdam based Italian perfumer Francesca Bianchi  introduced me to painter / body artist & perfume collector Sands…

チェスター・ギブスです。1969年、オランダ生まれです。

私はこれまでずっと旅と芸術を愛してきました。とくに日本は私にとって大好きな旅先の1つです。

私は2002年、アムステルダムのリートフェルト芸術アカデミーを卒業しました。もっと創作しなければと思うこともありますが、現在もなお芸術を作りつづけています。私が好きなのは絵で、紙を選び、鉛筆やインク、ペンといった道具を使って描いています。また、約4年前から香水にも興味をもつようになりました。

  このサイトには私の絵の世界を載せていますが、それだけではなく、私が魅かれ、愛してきた、目には見えないがにおいのするもの、すなわち、香水についてもお伝えできればと思っています。私は、今、香りというものを形と色でとらえようとしています。そして、将来、いつか私の絵の本質を香りでとらえられればと思っています。

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Kiss Me Later At The Club

Every man has a place, in his heart there’s a space, And the world can’t erase his fantasies Take a ride in the sky, on our ship fantasy All your dreams will come true, right away – Fantasy , Earth Wind & Fire

After Drawing The Zoo’s ‘Scent Tattoo’– I just had to make a ‘Club Design’ version. Christophe Laudamiel’s Club Designwon the 2018 Olfactory Award and it’s the exact same perfume as Scent…

Knowing The Ropes / Bound To Love

“My body is an ocean of twisted white debris,

And when summer gets to me and sets the heart in motion a pain that hides in my insides is suddenly set free.” – Adam & the Ants

Last Saturday at the Annindriya Perfume Lounge I had the wonderful chance to meet famous perfumer Christophe Laudamiel- creator of many famous fragrances such as Ralph Lauren’s Polo Blue and Estee Lauder’s Youth Dew Amber Nude.

While You Bloom Future Bliss

Where lies the secret of your charms? What do you prophesy to the soul? With what do you attract me, with what gladden my heart? Is it that you revive the ghost of former pleasures, Or is it future bliss that you promise us? I know not. But your balmy fragrance, Like flowing wine, warms and intoxicates me, Like music, it takes my breath away, And like a flame of love, it suffuses my burning…