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Somerset Artist
Street tenant Mark Noble is an artist whose work will be on display during Somerset Art Weeks 2009.
His work will be exhibited as part of the Expose of Somerset at 81 High Street, Somerset, BA16 0EG.
Opening times are 9am to 5pm daily except Sundays (12noon to 3pm).
Here he describes his work:
"Through my work, I am seeking to represent a personal vision of the sublime beauty I see in the diversity and wonder of the natural world. These images therefore address the complexity and grandeur of nature and through this, look at the relationship we have with the world around us.
"This relationship is at the same time; physical, emotional and spiritual and involves crossing that imaginary boundary that divides our inner emotional lives from the physical, tactile world around us.
"I wish my paintings to represent a first step in the mind of the viewer towards an inner journey that will challenge their preconceptions of the natural world and set them on a path towards self-discovery.
"Through the relationships between colours, images, shapes and forms that characterise this journey, it is hoped the viewer will recognise the fragility of our existence in the face of those primeval forces that make up the natural world.
"The influences that have inspired me in my own journey are those artists such as Turner, who embraced the power and majesty of the natural world, and attempted to harness both it’s destructive force and its magical qualities to focus it (in a painting) into a single point of sublime beauty."
Find out more at www.marknobleart.org.uk
Mark will also have an exhibition of paintings showing in 2010 at Wells and Mendip Museum at Cathedral Green in Wells from 16 January to 14 March.
Mark Noble's Summer in Somerset
