thinking art side the blog: Lewis Noble workshop

Friday, 6 February 2015

Lewis Noble workshop - Leek School of Art.

October 02nd - Lucky to have Lewis Noble at college again for his annual workshop with the Foundation Degree in Creative Art & Design Practice students at Buxton & leek College. Working with year 1 Degree students he talked about his work and inspired them with his paintings. First stop Brough Park to do studies & make marks then back to the studio to work on these - students had a wonderful time. Always a fantastic & inspirational workshop.

LEWIS NOBLE

In a Landscape

The title for this exhibition comes from a piano sonata by the American composer John Cage. Although I make no claim to be a musical expert, to me it has a similar intention to evoke the complete experience of being outside in a landscape. In my case, specifically the Derbyshire landscape around my home near Ashbourne in the southern Peak District.

In this new body of paintings my aim is to project the atmosphere of landscape, the rolling hills, moorland and rivers in this particular part of the first and much loved National Park in England.

The process of building many layers of paint over time, eroding and repainting has echoes in the way the landscape has developed.

Many of these works are painted for the most part in situ and completed in the studio. By referring to the many small plein air paintings, sketches and collages that I make, this process allows me to keep a spontaneous and fresh feel to the work.

Although sometimes titled with an actual location, my work is not place specific or overtly pictorial, rather the essence of a place, conveying a landscape that is still evolving and with weather that is constantly changing. I attempt to walk the tightrope between representational and expressive painting.

Lewis Noble, April 2014