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 its destructive force and its magical qualities to focus it (in a painting) into a single point of sublime beauty.
“Turner has some golden visions, glorious and beautiful, they are only visions, but still they are, and one could live and die with such pictures"
(John Constable,
1776-1837)
MARK NOBLE
Tel: 01458 443739