Sybil Hastings specialised in watercolours - landscapes, scenes and flowers, but also painted in oils. Her studies were under John Noble BARLOW and Norman GARSTIN.  She also attended the Byam Shaw and Vicat Cole School of Art.
She was born in Wells-next-the-Sea, Norfolk and lived in Woodbridge, Suffolk.  Her main exhibiting took place from 1923 to 1936. A recent correspondent (2012) has written that many of her paintings went to the USA.