Libby Curtis Webb

Libby Curtis Webb is a contemporary abstract artist based in Somerville, Massachusetts. Her work explores emotional landscapes—internal states shaped by memory, transition, and lived experience. Through layered surfaces, restrained color palettes, and intuitive mark-making, she creates paintings that function as environments rather than narratives.

Webb’s process is slow and responsive. She works primarily with acrylics and mixed media, often on raw or minimally prepared surfaces. Paint is built up, obscured, and reworked over time, allowing each layer to inform the next. The resulting compositions hold tension between structure and openness, clarity and ambiguity. Rather than seeking resolution, the work remains attentive to pause, drift, and subtle shifts.

Her current body of work is rooted in the idea that emotional states mirror natural systems—pressure, clearing, turbulence, calm. These paintings invite viewers to notice their own internal atmosphere, offering a space for recognition rather than explanation.

Before fully committing to her studio practice, Webb spent years working in the technology sector during the early growth of the internet. That experience informs her sensitivity to pace, attention, and the contrast between speed and stillness. In recent years, she has also trained in mindfulness and meditation practices, which continue to influence her approach to process and presence in the studio.

Raised in New England, Webb remains deeply influenced by its landscapes—coastal skies, wooded interiors, shifting light, and seasonal change. She maintains an active studio practice focused on developing cohesive bodies of work that balance emotional depth with restraint.

Her debut collection was released in January 2026.