Painter and draughtsman, born in Berkshire, who left school in 1959 to concentrate on painting. Produced haunting figure and landscape paintings in soft, earthy colours. He studied sculpture with Shelley Fausset for two years in 1960s, then attended Croydon College of Art, 1966–7, where he claimed he learned little. Went through rigorous study of such artists as Leonardo, Breughel and Dürer and became interested in surface and texture. Patrick Hayman, Bernard Leach and Peter Lanyon were key influences as were the Malvern Hills, where he lived much of his life, moving to Hastings, Sussex, in 1982. Its Museum and Art Gallery gave him a memorial show, 1992–3. Hibbert’s solo shows were at Search Gallery, 1973, and Hereford City Museum, 1985.