Barbara Roe Hicklin (née Barbara Jane Roe) was born in Toronto, Ontario on December 8, 1918.[2] The Roe family moved to Jasper, Alberta in the early 1920s and then, after the death of her father, they moved back to Ontario.[3]
Hicklin studied art in the 1930s at the Central Technical School and the Ontario College of Art and Design, both located in Toronto.[4][2] In the early 1940s, Hicklin moved to New York where she studied at the New York Phoenix School of Design and she graduated in 1946. While attending school she worked as a commercial artist.[4]
From 1951 to 1956, Hicklin worked as a theatre set designer in Sarnia, Ontario.[5] She married Hugh Hicklin sometime after World War II.[3]
In the late 1950s, Hicklin relocated again, this time to Edmonton, Alberta.[2] There she took up water colour painting and joined the Alberta Society of Artists[3] and the Edmonton Art Club.[4]
In the mid-1970s, Hicklin outfitted a vehicle (the "Van Go") to tour the Canadian countryside in order to create watercolour landscapes.[2] In 1980, she became a member of Canadian Society of Painters in Water Colour.[3]
Hicklin continued her peripatetic life, crossing the country, and making several trips to the Yukon.[4][5]
She died on December 24, 2010.[1]
