Libby trained as an architect, gaining a First Class Degree from the Bartlett School of Architecture at UCL, followed by a Diploma from the University of Cambridge.

She was awarded the first Geoffrey Jellicoe Landscape Architecture Scholarship to the British School at Rome. The resulting collection of paintings was exhibited by Pfizer at its UK and New York headquarters. The 25 paintings were subsequently acquired by Bank of America, which commissioned a second collection, Thames Docklands, for its European headquarters at Canary Wharf.

Libby’s work has been selected for two Royal Academy Summer Exhibitions, as well as the annual exhibitions of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and The Pastel Society all held at the Mall Galleries.

Following her career as an architect, Libby completed the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings’ Lethaby Scholarship, a practical scholarship specialising in building conservation. She subsequently produced illustrations for The Old House Handbook, The Old House Eco Handbook (both published by Francis Lincoln), and Design for Old Buildings (published by RIBA).

Based in East Grinstead, Sussex, Libby works from photographs, so distance is no barrier to commissioning a painting.