Chatsworth Reflected

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Lewis Noble - Chatsworth Reflected
This website is dedicated to the collaborative project between Lewis Noble, Chatsworth and the Hart Gallery in 2008 - 2009. Here, you will be able to follow the artist’s blog, image diary and view artwork as it progresses. Information will also be available throughout the year by visiting the Chatsworth website.

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Floods
In a project like this where you are focusing on a particular place, it is easy to become involved in the very local aspects of what you are doing, so much so that you can forget to take note of the bigger picture. This is especially true at Chatsworth where I have remarked before, there is a painting everywhere you look. Big as it is, it’s still seductive to think of the manicured gardens and carefully landscaped parklands as separate from the world at large. Read full article……

Derwent River Torrent 56×76cm, oil on watercolour paper.

Lewis Noble is to spend a year working with Chatsworth making a body of work in response to the estate. This unique event will take place throughout 2008 - 2009 and will culminate in a major exhibition at the Hart Gallery, London in May 2009. The exhibition will also preview at Chatsworth.

‘I’m relishing the idea of returning to Chatsworth and I want to produce paintings that reflect the many different aspects of place. I can’t say exactly what form the finished work will take as I always like to respond directly to what I see and experience. I don’t want to put any limitations on it’

Chatsworth has a very lively and important arts programme - including the ‘Beyond Limits‘ sculpture exhibitions with Sotheby’s, so to be working in this environment for a such prolonged period of time makes this project all the more extraordinary.
In addition to producing the paintings, there will be several opportunities over the year to meet the artist, discuss aspects of his work and attend talks.