Lewis Noble
Sketch, Paint and Collage
June 24th - July 2nd 2008

In this workshop we will spend part of the day drawing & painting direct from the landscape
and then painting from those sketches. The workshops I do are mostly about generating
an open attitude towards your work. You don’t have to continue working in this style, but
everything different that you try can be incorporated and add to your own style
of painting & drawing.
Energy is what we are after, letting the spontaneity of the marks to be interesting in their own right. Hopefully this will lead to a collection of sketches that can be used to inform the paintings we do.
I like to think of the process of painting as being much more than just putting brush to canvas.
The collection & use of sourced material is essential but in order to create a painting that
is more than a representation of the landscape we must allow the painting to exist
 in its own right using the ideas generated and emotions experienced.

Painting isn’t about paint it’s about you
Painting is all about people & their experiences, in this case, experiences of being
in the landscape. The emotional reaction or personal feeling in choosing and
working with a subject is as important, if not more important than the paint itself! 
Above all the course is about enjoying being in the landscape and having fun with
drawing and painting. There is no expectation on you to produce masterpieces,
only to have a sense of freedom about your work.

In recent years Lewis Noble has focussed exclusively on painting the landscape.
Working with the landscape provides the opportunity to experiment with ‘pure painting’ whilst
retaining an essential grounding in observation.
He creates clear, defined bodies of work, exploring his chosen subject through changing emotions, movement, light & colour.
In 2001 he was the winner of the first National Vickers Art Prize. As such he was afforded
the opportunity to be Artist in Residence at prominent locations around Derbyshire including Chatsworth.
Lewis works in a small White Peak village where he lives with his wife & three children.