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Exhibitions 2010 – 2011 |
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| “Survey“ Gallery Top April 2010 Byard Art, Cambridge Solo Show Solo Show |
 Wolfscote Dale (Weir) 140×120cm oil on gesso panel 2010 (at Tregoning Contemporary Feb 2010) |
Capturing something of the landscape is a peculiarly English preoccupation, be it in paint or music, poetry, prose, or photography. The landscape paintings of Constable and his magnificent skies are echoed in Lewis Noble’s fascination for large skies and their changing forms, while his free use of paint and its dissolving textures might remind us of Turner’s canvases in which winds and storms, mists and smoke seem to end up as an exploration of paint itself. The energy and physicality of Lewis’s technique of applying paint, whether with a brush or palette knife, and the importance of gesture, also brings him close to Abstract Expressionism. But the references to other artists and schools are so completely absorbed within his own work that any attempt to label him as post-this or post-that are futile.
Lewis’s landscapes are not at all picturesque, for he is in search of a more profound truth, namely the beauty of his landscape’s perennial toughness. – John Casken
