When Alan Gibbs purchased his Kaipara property in 1991, he already had three decades of significant art collecting behind him. The Gibbs Farm collection started out from Alan and Jenny Gibbs' history of collecting mainly paintings which has spanned 30 years and has since further extended what Gibbs admits is 'a fairly developed taste for abstract minimalist art'. The landscape rolls across ridges and gullies and extensive flatlands that have been contoured over the years.