Brian Cobble was born in 1953 in Ohio. He got his B.F.A. in 1975 from New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, and in 1977 his M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas. He also attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine. Although his training was chiefly in oil painting, Cobble fatefully turned to pastels when oil paints began to irritate his eyes, pleased and surprised at what he could achieve with them.
Cobble had his first solo exhibition in 1978 and has since had numerous solo and group shows, garnering many awards along the way. He has been conferred many prestigious awards and titles for his pastels and his work can be found in features of American Arts Quarterly, Southwest Art, the Pastel Journal, Dallas Arts Review, the Artist’s Magazine, and American Arts Quarterly. Apart from private and corporate collectors, Cobble’s work can be seen in such varied public collections as the El Paso Museum of Art in El Paso, Texas; the Museum of Fine Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico; the Columbus Museum in Columbus, Georgia; and the Tyler Museum of Art in Tyler, Texas.
