[2] He was educated at Porth Grammar School, before spending five years training at the Cardiff College of Art.

Although the six artists never set up a school or published a manifesto, they became known as the Rhondda Group[2] and were an important movement in South Wales art.

After leaving Cardiff College, he undertook his service for the British Army, being posted to Palestine and Egypt.

[3] With little opportunities to find work as an artist, Zobole took up an art teaching post in Llangefni in Anglesey, a position he held from 1953 to 1958.

Although Zobole lived and worked in a number of places in Wales, he spent most of his life in Ystrad, where he died in 1999.

The National Museum of Wales holds ten pieces of work by Zobole, including People and Ystrad Rhondda (1961) and Some Trees and Snow (1978).