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The surprising and unlikely collaboration between Justin Hibbs and Anna Siverton came only by chance and was purely circumstancial. Justin Hibbs had made a modernist sculpture serving as a shelving unit with artist Rosalind Davis, which was already a collaboration in itself.  This scultpture was installed in the gallery home space of Ramsgate. Porcelains of Anna Silverton were set on its mirroring shelves.  The visual relationship was instant.  In this installation, Anna's porcelain vase stands in front of Justin's large painting on canvas Void.   The horizontal lines of the painting culminate in deep sequences of saturation accross the verticality of the canvas, through the intensity of a radiating steel blue.  The pure yellow glaze and the ascending curves of the porcelain illuminate this near sublime combination of colours and forms.  Justin Hibbs is a hard edge constructivist whose art unashamedly claims a philosophical approach to collaborative practices. Anna Silverton is a ceramic artist whose aim is to reach the purest, most refined lines from the finest grain of porcelain, and defy gravity, turning volumes into waves of space.  Before then, no obvious hint of a collaboration would have come to mind between one who is a painter, sculptor, installation artist, and composer, Justin Hibbs, and Anna Silverton, a dedicated and skilful handler of the potters wheel, whose art, traditionally, would not have rubbed shoulders with concrete art. But it proved to be a fertile ground for a breathtaking aesthetic experience.