13th December – 17th January, 2015
Lewis Noble, Sea Swell, Acrylic & mixed media on board, 40x40cm, framed, £1,500
Lewis Noble, Sea Swell (iii), Acrylic & mixed media on board, 20x20cm, framed, £750
Lewis Noble, Wet Winter Sky, Acrylic & collage on paper, 16x17cm, £650
Lewis Noble, Sea Swell (ii), Acrylic & mixed media on board, 25x25cm, framed, £950
Lewis Noble, Sand Ripples on the Tide, 25x25cm, Oil & mixed media on canvas, £950
Lewis Noble, Dunstanburgh Beach, Northumberland, 100x100cm, Oil & mixed media on canvas, £5,500
Lewis Noble, Autumn Colour, Acrylic & collage on paper, 23x26cm, £750 - Sold
Lewis Noble, Ilam Flooded Wier (i), Acrylic & mixed media on board, 30x30cm, £850 - Sold
Rain Coming At Me, 56x56cm, Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas, £2,250 - Sold
A Scattering of Crows, 76x76cm, Oil & Mixed Media on canvas, £3,100 - Sold
Big fat raindrops, 56x56cm, Oil & mixed media on canvas, £2,250 - Sold
Stanshope into Milldale, 30x30cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £1,150 - Sold
Autumn Blown Leaves, 46x46cm, Oil & Mixed Media on canvas, £1,800 - Sold
Sunlight from behind me, 41x46cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £1,750 - Sold
Tarpey Gallery presents an intimate exhibition of eight new works in the second gallery space from 13th – 20th December from Derbyshire based painter Lewis Noble.
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.