Libby Wakefield works with and in the landscape, rendering in her paintings the timeless theme - connection to water.

At the center of her current body of work is a focus on the ways in which she can depict local landscape and waterways through the lens of Romanticism, looking at how the notions of beauty and the sublime can assist reconnections to these local areas.

In these works she is attempting to show a personal, sensual communication with the river and wetlands, making the expressions of atmosphere, mood and awe paramount in each painting, as well as striving to express feelings of melancholy and a yearning for a deeper experience of each place, its broader nature and its role played in past days.

She uses small brushwork and soft, subtle aspects of each riverbank and water surface to give a sense of place and intimacy to the paintings.

Whilst these works may have a grandeur and borrowed visual language from the past, they are combined with something else that strives to be both current and relevant.

Libby has been a finalist in many art prizes including the Waverley Art Prize, the Fisher Ghost Art Awards, the Wingecarribee Landscape Prize, the Pirtek Still Life Prize, the David Turnbull Bequest Prize as well as receiving highly commended awards for both the Norvill Art Prize and the Belle Property Prize.

In 2020 Libby won the Blue Square Art prize.

In 2017 she was invited to be the featured artist in the Goulburn Regional Art Gallery's Snapshot Exhibition and in 2018 was a Semi- finalist in the NSW Parliament Plein Air Prize. Her work has been purchased by the Historical Houses Trust, and she has had many exhibitions and private commissions. 

Libby is currently represented by the Grainger Gallery in Canberra.