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Mike Hobbs

Mike Hobbs - Visual Artist

After many years as an Art director/Conceptualizer, I have at last found the time to indulge my passion for drawing, painting, and photography which began in my early art school years where I was blessed to have had brilliant tutors, (including UK Pop Artist, Peter Blake) to guide me.

My starting point in the past few years has been the re-working of many of my early artworks through the interplay of analogue and digital processes. I was entranced as new aesthetic, technical, and formal insights transitioned the previous works, more often than not, into unrecognizable and profoundly changed artworks.

My first 'Collections' at Shelley Life By Design consists of a variety of recent digital artworks in several different artistic genres. However, for me, the abstract impressionism genre provides the most scope where no rules exist, and the artist's skill and intuition are free to provide the effortless improvisation of a great jazz band in full swing.

Equally, my aim is to continue making mixed-media digital artworks that are visually intriguing and accessible to wider audiences. Some prints are less playful than others and in some cases, I believe a certain gravitas has been achieved.  Also, I owe a massive thank you to Pauline Borton, an artist who has provided such a stimulating co-productive art-making space in which I can escape the Mac by indulging in the sheer  delight of getting back to basics.
This fabulous process often makes me feel like the youngest old artist in town!
I do hope you enjoy them.
Mike Hobbs.

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