Lewis Noble has lived and worked in Derbyshire since 1996. Over this time he has built a reputation as one of central England’s foremost artists. His focus lies in the physical and emotional impact of the landscape on the senses and how it the experience of being in landscape effects us as human beings.
The result is a body of work that speaks to the very heart of what it means to be part of the environment around us.
“This work is drawn mostly from the landscape near my home in the Peak District, and the coastal landscape of Cornwall. It’s essential for me to paint outside, as the main theme of the paintings is the experience of being in the landscape so all of the smaller paintings are completed on location. The atmosphere of the place is the real subject. I will often return to the same location many times, reworking paintings, until they start to give back some of the felling I am looking for.
Sounds and other sensations can also be very important in the work and and sometimes the titles will refer to and these and are usually references to things which occur to me as I am painting.
I work using a mixture of watercolour, gouache and acrylic, using the different properties of each to build up a layered surface which can be worked into, scored and worked over. I think of the process of applying, removing and reapplying paint is similar to the way the landscape itself is laid down over time, eroded and rebuilt by natural forces.
The canvases are painted in the studio over time and are usually a combination of different sketches and paintings. Rather than working up any individual sketch, I try to make these say something about the landscape as a whole.”
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Tregoning Contemporary, June 2011
Ainscough Contemporary Art, Chelsea, Solo Show October 2011
Hart Gallery, Paintings from Derbyshire & Cornwall Feb 2011
2009
Hart Gallery, ‘Chatsworth Reflected’
2008
Hart Gallery
London Art Fair
Art London
Ainscough Contemporary, Art Solo Show, ‘Paintings form California’
Tregoning Gallery, Derby, Solo Show, ‘From Where I Stand’
2007
Hart Gallery
London Art Fair
Art London
Tregoning Gallery, Derby, ‘In Situ’
2006
Hart Gallery, London
Tregoning Gallery, Derby
Ainscough Contemporary Art
2005
Hart Gallery, London
Tregoning Gallery, Derby
Firbob & Peacock, Cheshire
Invited Featured Artist, Wirksworth Festival
St. John Street Gallery, Derbyshire
The Merriscourt Gallery, Oxfordshire
2004
The Hart Gallery, London
The Merriscourt Gallery, Oxfordshire
Glasgow Art Fair
Ainscough Contemporary Art
Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire
Firbob & Peacock, Cheshire
2003
Ainscough Contemporary Art
The Merriscourt Gallery, Oxfordshire
Walker Galleries, Harrogate
St. John Street Gallery, Derbyshire
The Ashbourne Gallery, Derbyshire
2002
Ainscough Contemporary Art
John Martin of London
St. John Street Gallery, Derbyshire
The Merriscourt Gallery, Oxfordshire
Walker Galleries, Harrogate
Battersea Art fair
2001
Solo Show, Derby Museum & Art Gallery, Vickers Award Exhibition
Derby Museum & Art Gallery, ‘Derbyshire Artists’ Exhibition’
Ainscough Contemporary Art
Chatsworth House, Artist In Residence Open Studio
John Martin of London
Bath A.A.F.
Battersea Art fair
St. John Street Gallery, Derbyshire
