She then furthered her studies through University of South Africa (UNISA) and the Technikon Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.
She started the studio in order to offer visual training and printmaking guidance to beginners and advanced artists.
Their article reviews the art produced by the black artists who studied at the workshop, including its first-enrolled student Allina Ndebele, whom Hobbs has researched extensively in other publications such as her 2011 Water and Space, 2014 Allina Ndebele’s Tree of Life, and 2018 Mantis Wedding: Performing Power in the Loom.
Hobbs' 2006 publication, Messages and Meaning, is a catalog for the MTN Art Collection of which she is curator.
It is a collection of essays by writers such as Nessa Leibhammer, Elizabeth Rankin, Wilma Cruise and other prominent authors.