Day Gardens

Harbor Scene (after John Henry Twachtman)

, explores minimalist geometric abstraction through a soft, carefully considered palette—warm creams, muted pinks, and subtle interplay of line and plane. The works feel architectural in their structure but quiet in mood, emphasizing balance, restraint, and surface. Influences include Richard Diebenkorn’s Ocean Park series, Brice Marden’s textured cold wax paintings, Ellsworth Kelly’s formal clarity, and the spatial sensitivity of Tadao Ando’s architecture. These references shape a body of work that prioritizes composition and texture over complexity.

, Hobbs crafts a generative algorithm to uncover compositional arrangements he might not have originally arrived at. Though the series is digital, Hobbs is deeply focused on how the work feels—both visually and physically. The compositions range from stable and centered to subtly off-balance in ways that feel intentional and unexpected. With such minimal structure, the texture and color take on more weight; slight shifts in tone or surface detail become central to the experience. Hobbs isn’t trying to imitate analog materials, but he is aiming for a richness that feels tactile—something that carries depth and variation within a digital language. By offering physical outputs on wood panel, he’s grounding the work in a natural material with its own irregularities that complement the work's warmth without masking its digital origins. 

At its core, the series is an exploration of patience—patience in allowing a creative idea to germinate, in letting a concept take root over time, and in the act of looking closely. Hobbs uses generative systems not to accelerate the process, but to slow it down, to find compositional structures that emerge through restraint and careful attention. The result is a body of work that is quiet but deliberate, digital in form but grounded in a deep sensitivity to balance, texture, and time.

 debuted at Art Meta's Digital Art Mile, in 2025 with laCollection. Iterations #1-25 are available with a physical 24 x 30 x 2 in (61 x 76 x 5 cm) textured print on hand-stained wood panel; iterations #26-50 are digital-only.