UPDATE FRIDAY 10.15AM: SEXY images are OK for social media platform Instagram but sexually-charged captions are not, based on the recent experience of Byron Bay artists Mitch Gobel and and Sally Mustang.

One of Mitch Gobel's posts, containing a detailed account of an erotic encounter (related to the image posted), disappeared from his account yesterday, on the same day his sexy posts were profiled by a number of national news websites and The Northern Star.

Mr Gobel has re-posted the image deleted with a slightly edited version of the caption:

Ms Mustang also posted again an image that disappeared from her account yesterday:

Instagram has been, until now, commonly known for allowing many nudity and explicitly sexually-charged images and videos in their users accounts, despite their terms and conditions clearly stating that user "may not post violent, nude, partially nude, discriminatory, unlawful, infringing, hateful, pornographic or sexually suggestive photos or other content via the Service".

Mr Gobel said he was not too surprised.

"I only had my first post deleted today (Thursday) actually, but it's been a little while coming," he said.

"We knew that post was really going to push boundaries and I'm not surprised it was deleted.

"Anyway it's a good learning curve for us, next time we'll just have to be a little more careful about how we word our posts."

ORIGINAL POST: A BYRON BAY artist is bringing sexy back with a provocative online presence that is taking the #byronbay hashtag to a new, young and intrepid audience.

With over 72,000 followers on Instagram alone, Mitch Gobel, 24, has become one of the most visible Byron Bay locals online.

"I stayed there for a moment then without saying anything, slowly guided my tongue from her shoulder up to her ear... Literally nothing else matters when I'm in these moments, it's like being in another world. This is when I create, this is when I'm in the studio, this is when I call my life mine, I create exactly what I want and I own it completely," read one of his posts.

We had a chat with @mitchgobel_resinart to discover the man behind the online account.

Where are you from? How did you end up living here?

I grew up on the Mornington Peninsula in Victoria.

Only recently I've moved up to Byron but it already feels like home more than anywhere that I lived before.

I've been a professional artist for around two years now, but I've been practising my art for about four years.

I've never studied any form of art, I'm completely self-taught.

Becoming a professional artist happened really authentically for me, I was always working a full time job when I started my art and it was just a hobby.

As my understanding of resin grew, so did the idea that I could turn it into a career and the rest is history. It's a really long story.

Where do you live?

I am actually based in Ewingsdale. It's a beautiful house with all the Byron perks, minus the crowds, my girlfriend Sally (Mustang) and I like our privacy. Haha.

When did you start your business? Is it mostly online?

Business officially started in July 2014.

I've since been represented by some of Australia's best galleries but I'm now completely online.

With Instagram growing the way it is, I'll never need to pay a commission on sales again.

For anyone in the art industry, social media platforms such as Instagram can be incredibly powerful. It's a huge amount of work initially but if you can do it right, it's worth it.

How do you describe your artwork?

Resin looks like glass. It starts as a transparent liquid, like honey, which then has coloured pigments mixed into it, including metallic pigments and glitters.

When you look into it, you can literally see inside the art, some parts are tranparent, others opaque.

The first time people see resin art it usually blows their mind, as it did mine. It's really hard to try an understand without going through the entire process of creating the artwork.

Why is it that you decided to make your Instagram posts so sexy?

Sex is a huge part of my life, it's a huge part of who I am and the reason behind many of the situations - good and bad, that have shaped me and made me who I am as an artist.

I believe that all experiences through life, big or small contribute to what any artist creates and subconsciously there is a reason behind why I create, what I create in the way that I do.

I want people to see more than just pretty colours and designs when they look at my work, I want them to see a story and I think that being open about sex and our mentality on it has helped a lot of people to see that.

What kind of feedback do you get from your posts?

It's definitely controversial! But 90% has been incredibly supportive and many people have even thanked us for inspiring them with our posts and helping them to be more open with their partners, which is a huge part of what we're trying to achieve with these posts.