Contemporary British Painter Exploring Peace Through Art

Michelle Cobbin’s artwork explores ideas about the meaning and the experience of peace. Inspired in equal parts by her insight meditation practice, the natural beauty of the South Downs in Sussex, where she lives, and her roots in the Fens of East Anglia.

Designed to evoke stillness, harmony, and simplicity, her work offers viewers a moment of reflection, connection, and calm. Her abstract landscape paintings draw upon the dramatic impact of a horizon shaped by Suffolk’s vast skies and flat terrain, and wild flowers on the chalky terrain of the South Downs.

Michelle also explores ideas about peace through an overtly political lens. Active in today’s growing peace movement, her thought-provoking paintings highlight the impact of US military weaponry permanently stationed in England. She draws on her childhood experiences of growing up next to an American airbase that housed nuclear weapons and, more recently, her participation in peaceful protests there.

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