September 26th – November 7th, 2015
Opening, September 26th, 2 – 5pm
Autumn Blown Leaves, 46x46cm, Oil & Mixed Media on canvas, £1,800 - Sold
Big fat raindrops, 56x56cm, Oil & mixed media on canvas, £2,250 - Sold
A Scattering of Crows, 76x76cm, Oil & Mixed Media on canvas, £3,100
Bruised Sky, 56x56cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £2,250
Colder Than You'd Think, 30x30cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £1,150
Above us only Sky (iii), 41x41cm, Oil & Mixed Media on canvas, £1,650
Deep Shadow, West wind, 56x56cm, Oil on canvas, £2,250
Sunlight from behind me, 41x46cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £1,750 - Sold
Stanshope into Milldale, 30x30cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £1,150 - Sold
Crow Tracks in the Sky, 26x26cm, Oil & Mixed media on canvas, £950
Above us only sky, 56x56cm, Oil on canvas, £2,250
Rain Coming At Me, 56x56cm, Oil & Mixed Media on Canvas, £2,250
Exhibition Information
Tarpey Gallery is excited to present an intimate exhibition of new paintings by Derbyshire based artist Lewis Noble.
In these new 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 to maintain a spontaneous feel to the work and in the studio the process of constantly referring to the many small paintings, sketches and collages keeps the work grounded in a very unique visual language that the artist has worked extremely hard at developing over a distinguished career.
Although they are very much images of the real, earthy landscape, the works don’t usually try to picture any specific place and often aim to avoid the overtly pictorial. Instead Lewis attempts 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.