Michelle Cobbin

My current work explores colour and mood. I am fascinated by my emotional response to abstract images. As I work I am constantly in a relationship with the painting - responding to colour by how it makes me feel. I work in themes which allows me to set boundaries to the projects, and then explore the range of moods and colours that fit for me. Some paintings are many layered as their stories develop and change as I work. Others pieces are born complete, but these are rare species that flow through me occasionally when the stars align and I’m without ego or self consciousness.
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It interests me how the viewer responds to the work - what they see in a painting that may not have been my intention. The work develops it’s own stories, it seems, that is projected by to the viewer. One of my favourite quotes that highlights the link between what one brings (their life experiences) and how one approaches a work of art is from John Berger:
“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves. Our vision is continually active, continually moving, continually holding things in a circle around itself, constituting what is present to us as we are” (Ways of Seeing).

I studied Visual Culture and Fine Art at the University of Brighton.

I'd Be Enlightened Now If It Wasn't For You - Phoenix Art Space, Brighton April 2022
Transitions - 35 North Gallery, Brighton Sept-10 Oct 2020
Affordable Art Fair - fourfour gallery, Oct 2019
Autumn - 35 North Gallery, Brighton 2019
Surface - Gallery East, Woodbridge Suffolk 2019
Affordable Art Fair Battersea - fourfour gallery 2018
Solo show -Jane Newbery Gallery, London Aug-Oct 2018
Affordable Art Fair Battersea - fourfour gallery 2017
Field of Vision (solo show), 35North Gallery Brighton Mar 2016
Affordable Art Fair Battersea - fourfour gallery Oct 2016
Artemis Arts at the Foundry Lewes June 2016
May 2016 - BareFoot ArtHouse, Brighton
Affordable Art Fair Battersea - fourfour gallery Oct 2015
Towner Gallery Eastbourne, Chalk 10 yrs show, Sep 2015
BareFoot ArtHouse Brighton AOH May 2015
Affordable Art Fair (AFF), Battersea, fourfour gallery - Oct 2014
East Sussex Open, Towner Gallery, Eastbourne - July - Sept 2014
37 Park Crescent ,Artists Open House, Brighton Festival - May 2014
AFF Battersea, fourfour gallery - Oct 2013
'Don't Forget To Breathe' with J Shaw & E Ball, The Foundry Gallery, Lewes, Sept 2013
BareFoot ArtHouse, Artists Open House, Brighton Festival - May 2013
BareFoot ArtHouse, Artists Open Hous...