Oil and Acrylic Abstract Landscape Paintings 2019 - 2021
A painterly exploration of the Sussex landscape. Pared down to the essence of colour and mood.
Chalk Meadow, High Summer. Oil on canvas
Bridge. Oil & Acrylic on canvas
Barley and Chalk. Oil, chalk & acrylic on wood panel
Dandelion Love
Agrimony & Chalk
Wet Summer. Acrylic on canvas
Ancestral Land. Oil on canvas
Lament
A Review of ‘Transitions’ exhibition at 35 North Gallery, by artists and writer Geoff Hands
Cobbin is one of those painters who enjoys both strong, impactful colour and the materiality of paint without inhibition and whose work would be categorised as abstract. But she’s not averse to employing earthy or atmospheric colours either and there are clear references to the landscape, particularly horizons, and the titles reveal her wandering spirit and love of the natural world. Cobbin has been walking on the local Sussex downland that embraces the City of Brighton and Hove to the north and east. With the Covid lockdown her expeditions have been restricted to an area close to where she lives. This lack of autonomy to venture further afield has proved a bonus, as it happens. Even from a relatively small collection of works the varieties of visual memories and encounters recorded, experienced and visually ingested al fresco, then developed in the studio, are numerous in terms of colour combinations, tonal variations and implied explorations and experiences of local landscape spaces at various times of the day. That no space is inexhaustible, as visual phenomena or for prompting personal interpretation and meaning, might be a sub-theme to Transitions.