Jackie Hobbins

My oil painting at the moment is concerned with transient experience and personal story telling.

The play of light on the water can serve as a backdrop to the stories of my life but is also a metaphor for human impermanence and fragility.

Because I am a geologist, any rocks in the landscape reveal their own stories and the larger timeline of the universe through their shape and form, in contract to human experience and the movement of water which is more ephemeral.

I generally start with quite an abstract design, but in oil painting tend towards the more realist end of the continuum.  I enjoy the rituals of art that allow for both purpose  purposelessness / order and disruption/ recognisable tropes and alternative lenses.