Downtempo 1 by Dan Hobday Ernst Kirchner

Downtempo 1 by Dan Hobday Ernst KirchnerDowntempo 1 by Dan Hobday settles into a quiet, unhurried register soft tones layered with the restraint that characterises his Devon landscape informed practice. Abstraction and nature blur at the edges: shapes that might be hills, water, or simply colour finding its level. The Japandi sensibility is unmistakable deliberate negative space, a muted palette, compositional calm. Hobday's mixed media approach lends the work a gentle textural quality,

the clean vector-like precision of Tracey's linework and typographic detail are reproduced with full crispness on matte paper

The turquoise-toned fish is rendered in profile against a plain ground

the subject inhabiting its environment rather than floating before it

and Dadaism is visible in the fluid yet assured linework — form arrives through movement and feeling rather than precise anatomy

Zen Stone IV (ochre version) builds an abstract composition from layered collage forms in warm ochre tones

without compromise

and organic shapes into a composition that pulses with energy

almost windswept arrangement of its petals

secondary details dissolved into suggestion — a balance that defines his mature kacho-e style

presents a curated collection of insects with the systematic rigour and visual elegance that distinguished 19th-century scientific illustration

saturated colour gives the piece its sense of atmospheric dread

Bamboo stalks rise with characteristic economy — each brushstroke direct and unconditional