George Kilibarda was born in Sittingbourne, Kent in 1954. He developed an interest in art at an early age, encouraged by his family, teachers, and friends. After attending various secondary schools, and the Kent Institute of Design, Mr. Kilibarda relocated to Cardiff, South Wales, a community with an established and diverse arts scene. He became seriously interested in painting, and studied many internationally known artists whilst at the Newport college of Art. He quickly adopted an original, recognisable style, and began exhibiting at the Manor house Gallery. The first of these works, "Treeplanting", remains in the Gallery collection.

Mr. Kilibarda began selling and exhibiting work more widely through a variety of agents and galleries. He had his first one-man show at the St David's Theatre, Cardiff in 1992. Later that year, he also had a number of highly successful commissions, including large businesses and an investment bank. Mr. Kilibarda's work is in many private and a number of corporate collections in England, Wales, and abroad.


In 1993, Mr. Kilibarda was awarded a travel grant by the 'Welsh Arts Council' to visit Bosnia as a war artist, work from which he exhibited widely. He continued to paint privately commissioned works in his spare time, between raising his children and working part-time in Local government.

Towards the end of the decade Mr Kilibarda's focus turned to renovating a dilapidated barn on a hill overlooking Cardiff. Together with his wife Penny and two their daughters. Emily and Laura, they threw themselves into the project.
The fruits of their labour can be viewed on a web site Mr Kilibarda created as a present for his wife http://www.dovecotefarm.com

In 2001, while impressed by the increasing good quality video games were achieving Mr. Kilibarda joined a large video game company and regularly commuted to the Midlands.

In 2003 Mr Kilibarda decided to apportion his time between the Dovecote small holding and his art.

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