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Bill Hobler retired to painting over 10 years ago, studied art at the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia and at Christopher Newport University.  His paintings have been juried into several art shows at the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria, Virginia, the d’Art Center in Norfolk, The Peninsula Fine Arts Center, and into Blue Skies Gallery.  The paintings have won numerous awards.

He participated in shows at This Century Gallery, The Gallery on the York, the Waterline Gallery in Maryland, The Poquoson Art League, Christopher Newport University, and the Charles Taylor Art Center. 

Hobler teaches drawing, watercolor, figure drawing and portrait drawing at the Peninsula Fine Arts Center in Newport News, Virginia.

Those are the hard facts; softer and more important are his concepts about art and his art in particular.  He draws from personal experience his response to people, places, and events.  His website makes it apparent that the sea, nature, authors, musicians and poets are muses.  But it is broader than that, events such as America’s response to the 9/11 attacks and his response to the war in Iraq resulted in several images.  Terror and war are ugly, they make him think deeply.  They too are muses.

His concept of art is that all art, is expression of an artist – a communication from one human to another.  The expression that ‘beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ is not complete; it is more the communication of beauty from one person to another.  Extend this to art as communication of feelings of the artist to the other – a partnership. 

You are invited to visit Hobler’s website and see more of his work at www.billhobler.com