Even in her final days, beloved Yukon artist Libby Dulac couldn’t help offering her family some tips on how to arrange the flowers around her hospital room.
“Her love and appreciation for colour and nature was so ingrained in her,” recalled Libby’s daughter, Claire Dulac. “It needed to look right. And her artistic eye was just incredible.”
Libby, who died earlier this month at 75, made a name for herself in the Yukon and beyond with that artistic eye. Her evocative and colourful paintings, created over a decades-long career, were often directly inspired by the landscape she fell in love with and the place she called home —