MEET THE ARTIST

TOBIAS HODSON

Tobias Hodson spent fifteen years designing and building gardens. This created a broad and versatile base from which to explore flower painting - the choice of subject, its layout, and representation in two dimensions have architectural roots.
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His work is influenced by many artists, mostly long gone. These include C17th Maria Sybilla Merian for her fabulous composition and wit, the C19th French birds of  Barraband for depth of colour and consistency and Edward Lear for whom in the most serious studies there is often a lurking humour.
In each of his paintings he is seeking to explore the strangeness of our existence.

Private Collections & Commissions

Galleries
Ballymaloe Co Cork
Kenny Gallery Lahinch
Lavitt Gallery Cork
Lars Bolander NY & Miami
Private collections
Kevin Maxwell
Simon Tolkien
Bonnie Brashears
Commissions
Bybloemen Tulip series for Bride restaurant, Waterford
Spoonbill for Dr.Lynch, Dean of Miami University Fla.
Tobias Hodson Exhibitions
Solo exhibition RhueArt Ullapool 2012
Perception, Dovecot Studio Edinburgh 2011
Group show RhueArt Ullapool 2011
AAF London Rhueart 2010
GAF Glasgow with Rhueart 2010
AAF Battersea with Rhueart 2009
Dublin Art Fair 2008
Art Fair, San Francisco 2007
Ballymaloe, Co Cork 2006
Crawford, Cork 2005 (Cork European city of culture)
The Courtyard, Midleton 2001
Education
Gloucestershire College of Art and Design