A hardworking and inspired artist since childhood, Christel Sobke has crafted her works with painting, collage, photography, sculpture and digital media. Her sensitive and inspiring works feature landscapes drenched in luscious color from awe-inspiring vantage points. Other works explore a honeybee’s perspective of flowers, zooming in on the minute textures and details of the plant to fashion images that are otherworldly and fascinating to take in. Sobke’s digital collage works are created with visual programs on computer or by employing macro-photography to be printed on large sheets of paper up to nearly three feet wide.

There is a sense of purpose and urgency to her calling as an artist, through its timeless beauty Sobke would like her art to inspire a sense of environmental responsibility in her audience. “I would wish that people value and respect nature,” she explains. “I would like to remind the spectator that he forms a part of it.” Sobke divides her time between her native Germany and the Canary Islands.