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THE ICELANDIC CANADIAN
Vol. 56 #3
Joan Hibbert was born in Victoria, B.C. She became a pat of the
Icelandic community when she married Thorsteinn (Steini) Hibbert of
Vidir, Manitoba. In 1958, Steini and Joan bought the property known as
“Ja[ri” (1876) on the west shore of Lake Winnipeg. This land, once
owned by Johannes Jonasson and Halla Jonsdottir, became the Hibbert's
summer home—the place where Joan renewed her lifetime interest in
painting. The Prairie skies, the vastness of the land and the drama of the
lake inspire her landscapes, while the old homesteads remind her of the
sagas that are such an inherent part of the Icelandic culture.
She finds her watercolours best enable her to express the spirit of the
land and the people she has grown to know and appreciate.
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