Lewis Noble

The Tregoning Gallery Summer Show starts this week .

Please contact the gallery for details if you wish to attend.

www.tregoningfineart.com

Preview: Thursday 15 July 2010, 6 – 9pm

Friar Gate Studios, Ford Street
Derby DE1 1EE
tel. 01332 258353

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New Book available to buy now.

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

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