CLIBBON, John Victor

1936 - 2008

John Victor Clibbon was born at The Via, Stoke-by-Nayland, Suffolk on 9 June 1936, son of Revd Cecil Victor Clibbon (13 May 1899-9 July 1962) and his wife Muriel Freda née Cooper (12 February 1904-18 August 1983), who married at Hitchin Parish Church, Hertfordshire on 24 April 1929. John married at Hitchin, Hertfordshire in 1965, Margaret Elizabeth née Liptrop (Meg Clibbon) and their daughter was artist Lucy Clibbon. John Clibbon worked as a art teacher, instructing at Lord Williams's School in Thame during the late 1960s, where he frequently organised student art trips to Florence. An artist, art teacher, and prominent model enthusiast he later served as a director for the Bury St Edmund's Art Gallery Trust in Suffolk. He worked primarily with pen and watercolour, producing highly detailed architectural drawings and depictions of European landscapes and panoramic landscape views of Bury St Edmunds, and Italian cityscapes including Venice and Naples. Alongside fine art, he was a skilled local illustrator. and drew promotional and political campaign cartoons for 'The Bury Society' newsletters and local initiatives like 'Bury in Bloom' during the late 1980s. John Victor Clibbon died at Bury St Edmund's on 18 November 2008.

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