The production designer Christopher Hobbs, who has died aged 82 following a chest infection, had the opportunity of expressing himself in films made by purveyors of the colourful and outrageous, such as the directors Derek Jarman and Ken Russell.
His tour de force, with Jarman, combining sexuality and art, was Caravaggio (1986), an imagined tale of a love triangle involving the real-life Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo da Caravaggio woven together by his canvases in various stages of completion – painted by Hobbs himself.
