The Audio for the Landscape Resounds PaintingsIncluding the sound with the paintings was new for me. If landscape painting traditionally places the ‘subject’ as the audience or the painter, I think the sounds helped to create ‘subjects’ in the paintings… “Resounding Landscapes” Click the images to enlarge. The audio for each painting is directly below. Swallowfields Make-shift Shelter Buckham’s Park Barn Read the Rest…
Landscape Resounds: Video of the Installationhttpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avP1Ach0SmM&feature=player_embedded Landscape Resounds was my MA show contribution at Ultimate Dart – The Dartington College of Arts MA show for 2010. The installation featured 11 four foot square paintings of Totnes and Dartington. Each painting also had a ‘soundscape’ that was playing from speakers behind the canvases. These soundscapes were composed of sounds recorded at Read the Rest…
A bunch of the MA students are making short videos to advertise the upcoming MA show at Dartington College of Arts this July 20-22nd. I took a time lapse video of the beginnings of a painting at 30 second intervals. I believe there are 24 frames per second, translating to roughly 12 minutes represented by Read the Rest…
Questions on Process of PracticeCurator Joanna O’Donovan asks:
Do you paint on site or in a studio?
You work on large canvases, what do you like about working on this scale?
What do you look for in a site to paint?
Constance Merriman and I collaborated on this photo experiment which we exhibited in the Landscape Thinks Itself In Us show in January 2010. It will be showing at the Exchange in a more intimate format from February 5th until April 17th. The exact same video file is posted below to Vimeo. I heard they have better Read the Rest…
19th Century French painter, Paul Cezanne, once wrote in a letter to a friend; ‘the landscape thinks itself in me… and I am its consciousness’. It is this relationship between the land and us, the intertwined and interdependent relationship between the observer and the observed, the inhabitant and the inhabited, that is the focus of Read the Rest…
Nice party on January 21st, 2010. Dartington College in Devon, England. We had roughly 50-60 people over the course of the evening.
I am very lucky to have been invited to collaborate on an artwork with my longtime Pittsburgh friend, STUDIO collegue and fellow landscape painter, Connie Merriman. She asked if I would like to work with her for the Associate Artists of Pittsburgh Centenial Exhibition. Pittsburgh is a very special place for me, and it’s magnetic Read the Rest…
Paintings by Noel Hefele Curated by Joanna O’Donovan January 21st – 24th 2010 Preview with Drinks Reception Thursday January 21, 7-9pm STUDIO 8 Lower Close Dartington College of Art Campus Totnes, Devon. Join us over the weekend for a discussion about a town in transition; reflecting on a vision of Totnes in 2011. Further Details Read the Rest…