Bill Hobler
I believe that all art is an artist’s expression of feeling or belief — 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 or ugliness from one person to another; all expression should include the darker facets of our lives . Extend this to art as communication of feelings of the artist to those experiencing the art — it is a partnership.
I retired to painting over 10 years ago, studied art at the Art League in Alexandria, Virginia and at Christopher Newport University. My 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.
I teach 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 that art and my art in particular which draws from personal experience his response to people, places, and events. My paintings make it apparent that the sea, nature, people, 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 me think deeply, as should all of us, and ponder the problems and my response to them. They too are muses.
