GUDRUN SIBBONS Artist Painter (1925 -)

Gudrun Sibbons (1925 – ) was born in Germany during the troubled inter-war period in the disputed region of Silesia claimed by both Germany and Poland. She showed outstanding artistic talent from an early age and studied art in Berlin, Breslau and Hamburg. But World War II was to cast a terrible shadow over her early life and claimed the lives of both her father and mother. Gudrun herself worked as a military nurse in Berlin but in 1945 was able to escape from the advancing Russian army, surrendering eventually to British forces. Two years after the war, when Gudrun was working as a doctor's secretary in Hamburg, she met Bill Sibbons, a dashing young RAF officer. Romance blossomed and in 1949 they moved to London and were married. Not long after, she started selling her paintings off the railings in Hyde Park, from which moment her reputation has grown and grown. Later, Gudrun and her husband moved from London to the seclusion of a remote country cottage in the West of England where Bill was able to indulge his passion for fishing and Gudrun her love of horses and riding. Bill Sibbons, also a talented artist and best selling author on the secrets of fly fishing, sadly died in December 2000. In recent years, Gudrun Sibbons' artistic reputation has continued its upward momentum with her work finding its way into many prestigious private collections.

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