Hideyuki Sobue

Japanese visual artist Hideyuki Sobue (b. 1965), who graduated from Osaka University of Arts, lives and works in the Lake District, UK, yet grew up as an orphan in Aichi, Japan. Working with drawing and painting, two historical media that have served as a fundamental means of communication since prehistoric times, he explores the unbroken line in the relationship between art and humanity.

Sobue uses an entirely original brush hatching technique employing Japanese sumi ink and acrylic. Created through a fusion of influences - the concept of Disegno in the Florentine school of the Renaissance, oriental artistic heritage and neurological studies - Sobue’s medium attempts to create a platform bridging East and West, and explore the interdisciplinary approach related to the human act of seeing, delving into the mystery and uniqueness of humanity.

Sobue has exhibited extensively throughout the UK and Japan. Notable exhibitions include 'A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix' commissioned by the National Trust and supported by Arts Council England (Allan Bank, Grasmere); 'Wordsworth, Rawnsley and Lake District', celebrating the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth and the centenary of Hardwicke Rawnsley’s death supported...

Osaka University of Arts BFA (scholarship)

Recent solo exhibitions:
2023 - A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix (Allan Bank, The National Trust, Grasmere, UK)
2022 - A Letter to the Earth from Beatrix (Allan Bank, The National Trust, Grasmere, UK)
2021 - Wordsworth, Rawnsley and Lake District for celebration of the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth and the centenary of Hardwicke Rawnsley’s death (Rydal Mount, Ambleside, UK)
2020 - Recollection (Hay Hill Gallery, London, UK)
2020 - Conversation with Ruskin for celebration of the 200th anniversary of John Ruskin’s birth (The Ruskin, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK)
2019 - Conversation with Ruskin for celebration of the 200th anniversary of John Ruskin’s birth (Blue Gallery, Ruskin Foundation & Brantwood Trust, Coniston, UK)
2018 - Sanpo (Dover Gallery, Farfield Mill Art Craft & Heritage Centre, Sedbergh, UK)
2015 - I Wandered... A celebration of the 200th anniversary of the publication of William Wordsworth’s ‘Daffodil’ poem in collaboration with poet Gary Boswell (Rydal Mount, Ambleside, UK)
2013 - The Way I See (Japan House Gallery, Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation, London, UK)
2013 - The Way I See (Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, UK)
2010 - Country Life (Wendy J. Levy Contemporary Art, Didsbury, UK)

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