Randy Hibberd was born in 1972 in Huntington Beach, California. At the age of 12, his family moved to Phoenix, Arizona where he has lived ever since. As a child, Randy was always attracted to drawing, which eventually progressed to painting and expressing his innermost thoughts onto canvas. Upon graduating from high school, Hibberd enrolled at Arizona State University in Temple, Arizona. While in college he mastered a multitude of art classes. But it was not until after his graduation in 1994 that he channeled his full attention into his paintings.  During his first two years of college, Hibberd was an understudy and an apprentice for two nationally known artists. Here, hands-on experience helped him realize that painting was what he wanted to do for the rest of his life. As a student, Randy was fascinated by the power of color, and the ability to convey emotion even without specific imagery. As his paintings evolved, he explored and experimented, adding more deliberate texture and depth to his pieces.