Paintings by Bob Hoke

Bob Hoke’s‘ paintings on board are immediate, bizarre and rich in colour, lively portraits that live in the Outsider art world, a place outside the cultural mainstream, that are compelled to exist because the maker has to make, scratch, mark, bring colour to live without regard to art history and the gallery system.

He lives and sleeps art, along with his partner Therese Marie Nolan, in an old brick church on the banks of the Mississippi river. For decades he has been scrounging for found materials in skips to paint his vivid pictures – that are both chaotic and full of humour – that draw from a hard life of making, moving, trying to make paintings that exorcise his feelings and experiences. He now sells his works online directly to a global audience.

“I’m a bohemian dumpster divin outsider artist/painter. Aint got a lot of formal training. Been painting on and off most of my life. For the last 10 years I have been displaying my paintings on ebay. I paint approximately 30 to 40 paintings a month. Nothing the same but a common thread of chaos and humor. I live in an old church in downtown historic Hannibal, Missouri along the vast Mississippi river. I sleep and eat downstairs and paint upstairs.”- Bob Hoke