James Hobbs - Current Work

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James Hobbs studied at Winchester School of Art from 1985 to 1988, and has had work selected for the Hunting Art Prizes and the Jerwood Drawing Prize. His work is in included in such institutions as the Berardo Collection, Lisbon, and the University of Surrey. He once spent six months drawing his way around England, living in a camper van. He was editor of Artists & Illustrators magazine from 2001 to 2004.

He grew up in Devon, but now lives in Stoke Newington, north London. The city is a recurring theme in his work. He is a London correspondent for the international online community Urban Sketchers (http://www.urbansketchers.org) and he blogs regularly about his work (www.james-hobbs.blogspot.com). A love of drawing is at the heart of his work: all his prints start out as ink drawings in sketchbooks done on site. "The primal, uncompromising nature of drawing has always attracted me, my work starting out as drawings in sketchbooks. I like drawing to be a simple, direct act," he says.

The finished works are a combination of these drawn images and digital colour added back in the studio, which are then published in limited editions. The prints are on archival quality Hahnemühle 230gsm paper using Mutoh inks, which came first for lightfastness in a Fine Arts Trade Guild test, rating “very high”. The prints are available in a variety of sizes; contact us to discuss larger or smaller versions of any image, or commissions.