He studied ceramics and graphics at Chelmsford School of Art and Sir John Cass College in London. Later he undertook courses in printmaking at Camden and Morley colleges in london.
From his early teens, Jobo's main ambition was to be a composer. He studied piano and cello and composition with Anna Lockwood. When he was 23, he was actively involved in the new music scene in london and New York. With his audiovisual music group Metamusic ensemble, he gave concerts on the South Bank, Wigmore Hall and venues throughout the UK as well as the main European capitals. At that time he was visual art assistant to John Cage in New York.
During his twenties, he was prolific as a painter and ceramic artist, showing mainly in galleries in the UK alongside his musical actives.
It was about 1980 when he turned thirty that he decided to abandon music making and concentrate on becoming a serious painter. It was then he changed his arts name to Jobo. He went to live on the Isle of Mull in the remote west coast of Scotland where he started a ten year long gestation period to become a serious painter.
"I knew I had something profound to say about life, so I just had to work alone and find my true voice as a painter"
He now shows his work in UK, Europe, USA and South Africa and has works in public and private collections worldwide.
He lives alone in the UK by the sea in North Kent and regularly travels to worldwide, wild, wonderful places.
JOBO@greatbritishartists.com
Pamela Zoline
