Mike Ibbotson’s artistic practice is expansive and multi-disciplinary encompassing landscape design as well as two-dimensional work in a wide range of different media, including painting, drawing, photography and printing.
His artwork flows out of a personal philosophy and approach working from observation, making sketches that describe space and volume, not just the objects in view. Paintings are made from a memory of place along with observational sketches and an intimacy that comes from the plein air pencil drawings.
Mike’s landscape art has a loose, fresh, effortless feel and he adopts a spontaneous, rapid workflow where accidents form part of the creative process, where the paint is allowed to have life.
Mike has exhibited with the Royal Society of British Artists after being awarded the RBA ‘Best work on Paper’ prize at one of their annual exhibitions and has also exhibited in the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Open Prize Exhibition. Painting commissions include the Royal Parks Agency and he has undertaken illustration for the Royal Horticultural Society, Royal Albert Hall and Historic Royal Palaces.
