Contemporary British Painter Exploring Peace Through Art

Michelle Cobbin’s artwork explores ideas of what peace means. Inspired by meditation, the natural beauty of the landscapes in Sussex, and her roots in East Anglia. Her abstract landscape paintings draw on the dramatic impact of the horizon, shaped by Suffolk’s vast skies and flat terrain. Designed to evoke stillness, harmony, and simplicity, her work offers viewers a moment of reflection, connection, and calm.

Michelle also explores peacefulness through a political lens. Engaged in the Peace Movement, her thought-provoking paintings question the justification of US military weaponry in England, drawing on her childhood memories of growing up near a nuclear weapons base, and recent peaceful protests at the same base.

Her work invites viewers to consider the meanings of peace, both personally and globally.