She lives in Kansas City, Missouri, with her husband and son. She has a Bachelor’s of Art in Fine Art from Park University in Parkville, Missouri. History and environmental sustainability are of utmost importance to her. Her primary focus is painting portraits. She enjoys putting found objects in her work and giving new uses to items that otherwise would have ended up in a landfill. The objects in
her work all have a meaning and a backstory including where they came from and where they were found. She finds the process of making art very therapeutic. Libby is currently working on a series of paintings of influential women who have attributes of saints. She finds it important to make these paintings because she wants these women to be icons that generations of people to come can look up to and emulate. Libby would define herself as an atheist who was raised Catholic and has a strong appreciation and sees the value of religion. To make an icon painting, she uses a nine-pointed star from the movie Holy Mountain by Alejandro Jodorowsky and gold leafing to create a halo
