Noel Paine
“‘It is the colours and shapes of landscapes that intrigue me at the very beginning of a painting. The persistent question being, ‘How could I put these visual sensations that I see in front of me onto a canvas in paint?’
The development of idea through paint is what appeals to me most.
When I was painting in London, pre-2008, I solely wanted to concentrate on the medium of paint on a flat surface, I never set out to be a ‘Landscape Painter’.
It felt natural that my paintings began to focus on the landscape that surrounded me. I didn’t paint in a ‘descriptive’ or ‘narrative’ manner, a building, a rooftop, a graveyard, a tree are all chosen because of their visual qualities.
After leaving London in 2008, I worked in Rome. Moving allowed me to continue the themes established within my London paintings, old and modern, as well as be close to the vegetation within the city.
In 2014, I moved to Vienna, to consolidate my London work, alongside my Italian journey. Austria has very defined seasons that helped me realise the seasonal element to my paintings. Also, the city is surrounded by the Wienerwald, an unfamiliar territory. The un-known is a quality that I like to be present within my work.”
Noel Paine is an English artist. Educated at Colfe’s School, London. He studied Art and Aesthetics at The Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly The Cardiff Institute of Higher Education); The College of Charleston, South Carolina (he worked under Prof. Michael Tyzack and as studio assistant to David Novros). He completed an MA in Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent.
In 1995 he worked for a year in a studio in New York City. Returning to London in 1996, he worked at a Barbican Arts Trust studio, he was then awarded a ‘Fire Station’ residency with Acme Studios, London. From 2001 he worked from a studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf, before going to work in the Italian campagna, Rome and the surrounding region. He currently maintains a studio in Anticoli Corrado in Lazio, and in Vienna, Austria to where he moved in 2013.
Paine is a landscape painter. He divides his working practice between working directly outside in the landscape and within the studio. He paints predominately from drawings, completing large oil on canvas works in the studio. Although his pantings are widely recognised for their distinctive guration, the themes and ideas behind the paintings remain conceptually abstract.
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