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For over 40 years, Edna Hibel has been referred to as America's best loved and most versatile artist, and best colorist. Today Edna paints each day in her studio at home beginning early in the morning and hand enhances her original stone lithographs, serigraphs and giclee with pastels, oil paint, gold leaf, pencil, ink, conte crayon and charcoal. The work of Edna Hibel has been exhibited in prestigious museums and galleries in more than 20 countries on four continents including national museums in Brazil, China, Costa Rica, Russia and the U.S.A., and under the royal patronage of Count and Countess Bernadotte of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Prince and the late Princess Rainier of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England. Edna Hibel believes in virtue: high on the list is the virtue of accepting with equanimity the responsibility for facing up to the burdens that life offers. The joys of parenting cannot he realized without accepting the caring for and the nurturing of the children. Observe the serenity with which Edna’s mothers carry their children and babies and the resulting calm of the children. They are all embraced by an inner peace. The mothers seem to know instinctively where lays the better life. This same inner peace can be seen in the attitudes and expressions of the people in her paintings of farmers working in the fields. There is no hint of weariness or resentment; only what might be called dedication to the tasks at hand and satisfaction with the results, and with the fact that they were allotted such an important assignment in life. These are the ingredients for a true democratic society in which all indi¬viduals can reach their full potential and live lives of excellence, grace and beauty in harmony with their fellow citizens. |
