Artist Spotlight : Hisba

Hisba, one of the longest attending artists at Artbox creates beautiful, eye-catching artworks which often incorporate geometric shapes, bright colours and carefully constructed patterns. She is not bound to one medium and loves to experiment with all forms of 2-dimenional art. From her animated collages which are made from brightly coloured papers and card or magazine cut outs, to her precise and delicate paintings and drawings, Hisba’s fun and energetic personality always shows through in her artworks.  She is an incredibly varied artist who is always ready with new and exciting creative ideas. Hisba’s use and understanding of colours, forms and composition has led to the development of an eclectic body of work.  

I like art so much because it makes me feel happy, it makes me feel relaxed, comfortable and easy. I have a lot of ideas for different mediums and enjoy mixing mediums together

Sketch book work

As well as her accomplished, finished pieces, Hisba’s sketchbooks are full of smaller plans and experimentations which are brilliant in their own right. Her series of watercolour paintings are abstract representations of landscapes with fluid shapes set within straight triangular borders. Whilst similar in subject and colour, each painting varies in the way Hisba has fragmented the pieces into triangular segments.

Painting from Hisba’s sketchbook

Mountains

Similar to her Sketch Book Work, Mountains is another of Hisba’s abstract landscape works, combining cut out coloured paper with felt tip drawing. Hisba often visualises in geometric shapes, transforming the world around her into colourful displays of ordered colours. She also uses geometric shapes to catch the eye of the viewer.

Mountains

Nature

In Nature, Hisba has developed her abstract explorations further by distorting the geometric triangular shapes themselves. Working with ‘Free Space Project’, Nature is one of the outcomes of Hisba teaching tutorials on how to create kaleidoscope inspired drawing, using objects with circular bases as stencils, Nature is bursting with shapes within shapes,  colours within colours and she has beautifully captured the fluidity between the changing patterns within kaleidoscopes.

Nature

Heritage

Hisba is influenced by world cultures and art from other countries, especially drawing from her own Ghanaian heritage. Inspired by the patterns and bright primary colours present on tradition or national cloth of Ghana; the kente cloth. Hisba has captured the rows of patterns of the saturated reds, yellows, blues and greens of the kente cloth in her collages. Creating photocopies of her original design, she has cut out each of the vibrant blocks and reconstructed them to make a series of mixed collages with varied patterns and layouts, some incorporating text and others solely patterns. Her Ghanaian inspired works are some of Hisba’s most recent pieces and her ideas keep on developing, exploring a range of mediums to explore new ways to explore her heritage.

Geometric Art

Below are a series from Hisba’s digital, photoshop works. Transforming her geometric works into a display of beautiful constructed digital experimentations, which like much of her work are vibrant and energetic, and full of carefully thought-out compositions of geometric shapes. They clearly demonstrate Hisba’s innate understanding of colour and arrangements.

You can see more of Hisba’s art, in person, at One of a Kind, our first studio exhibition in 2 years, which runs until the 3rd December: