Autumn and Rising Cloud - Mellbreak. 600mm x 600mm acrylic on board
Malcolm Dobbins
The unique abstract work of the artist is easily recognisable, and has been for quite
some time. Malcolm has been painting for over four decades. His medium is acrylic
and his style has been developed from twentieth centuries masters such as Hans
Hoffman through to Franz Kline. Although his own abstractions the feel is more akin
to Abstract-Realism than it is to pure abstraction as Hoffman or Kline work are.
It is not uncommon to see Malcolm’s style emulated these days, as other artists are
attracted by the beauty of the texture of surface that Malcolm achieves
Yet, none can match his colour sense - or the way in which he carefully balances
the colour tones within a specific composition, an attention to detail which is
all his own.