Artist Statement
In these works, the paintings stand in for the landscape itself. The process of building many layers of paint over time, eroding and repainting, has echoes in the way the landscape is made. Many of the works are painted outside or begun in situ then completed in the studio. This helps me to maintain a spontaneous feel to the work and in the studio I constantly refer to the many small paintings, sketches and collages I make while outside.

Although they are very much images of the real, earthy landscape, I don’t usually try to picture any specific place and often avoid the overtly pictorial. Instead I attempt to walk the tightrope between representational and expressive painting to convey a landscape that is still happening. If you were able to look to the left, right, above or below the canvas, you could see another entirely different yet interconnected image. These are not photographic frozen moments but paintings which contain all the time it took to make them.

Biography

Born 1967, London

Selected solo exhibitions

2014

June 7th
The Campden Gallery.
‘IN A LANDSCAPE’ solo show

2013

St. John Street Gallery, Ashbourne. ‘Dovedale’ solo show
Ainscough Contemporary Art, Dartmouth

2012

The Campden Gallery. ‘Spring’ solo show

2011

Ainscough Contemporary Art, London
HartGallery, London, ‘Paintings fromCornwall & Derbyshire’

2010

ByardArt,Cambridge

2009

HartGallery,‘Chatsworth Reflected’
Chatsworth House,‘Chatsworth Reflected’

2008

AinscoughContemporaryArt, London,‘Paintings from
California’
TregoningGallery,Derby,‘FromWhere I Stand’

2007

HartGallery, London,‘Where the SkyTouches the Land’
TregoningGallery,Derby,‘In Situ’

2006

TregoningGallery,Derby

2005

HartGallery, London
Invited featured artist,WirksworthArt Festival
TheMerriscourtGallery,Oxfordshire

2004

TheMerriscourtGallery,Oxfordshire
AshbourneGallery,Derbyshire

2003

StJohn StreetGallery,Derbyshire
TheAshbourneGallery,Derbyshire

2001

DerbyMuseum&ArtGallery,VickersAward Exhibition
DerbyMuseum&ArtGallery, ‘DerbyshireArtists Exhibition’
AinscoughContemporaryArt, London
Chatsworth House,ArtistIn Residence Exhibition
StJohn StreetGallery,Derbyshire

Selected group exhibitions

2011

WalkerGalleries.Harrogate
TregoningGallery,Derby
WirksworthArts Festival

2010

HartGallery, London
TregoningGallery,Derby
AinscoughContemporaryArt
WirksworthArts Festival

2009

TregoningGallery,Derby
WirksworthArts Festival
ByardArt,Cambridge

2008

HartGallery, London

2006

HartGallery, London
AinscoughContemporaryArt
WirksworthArts Festival
ByardArt,Cambridge

2005

TregoningGallery,Derby
StJohn StreetGallery,Derbyshire

2004

The HartGallery, London
GlasgowArt Fair
AinscoughContemporaryArt, London
Firbob&Peacock,Cheshire

2003

AinscoughContemporaryArt, London
TheMerriscourtGallery,Oxfordshire
WalkerGalleries,Harrogate

2002

JohnMartin of London
StJohn StreetGallery,Derbyshire
TheMerriscourtGallery,Oxfordshire
WalkerGalleries,Harrogate

Awards
Winner,Vickers Art Award 2001

Collections
Lewis Noble’s paintings are in public and private collections in the UK
and elsewhere in Europe,NorthAmerica,Australia andAsia.