The Landscape Thinks Itself In Us

This exhibition was a collaboration between Noel Hefele and Joanna O'Donovan at Dartington College of Arts in Devon England during the month of January 2010.

Elements of the exhibition are documented below

Questions on Process of Practice

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Curator 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?

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Video Interview at the Sites

The Landscape Thinks Itself In Us

Joanna O’Donovan (curator) and I talk about the sites of the paintings featured in the exhibition; The Landscape Thinks Itself In Us.

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Untitled

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This painting documented a space that was 50 meters from the gallery. We tried to query the audience for a title, but that effort was largely unsuccessful.
4′x4′
Oil on canvas
2010

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Persistence Under Change

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Totnes is a ‘Transition Town,’ yet this view of the East Gate along the high street remains largely unchanged over many years.
4′x4′
Oil on canvas
2010

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The Harvesters

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With this painting, I started to see neglect and abandonment in a cyclical perspective.
4′x4′
Oil on Canvas
2010

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The Atmospheric Principle

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4′x4′
Oil on Canvas
2010

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Dwelling | Preview of the Results

Exchange: Emerging and Established Artists Come Together

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 [...]

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Exhibition Framing Statement

The Landscape Thinks Itself In Us

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 [...]

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Exhibition Opening Night

The Landscape Thinks Itself In Us

Nice party on January 21st, 2010. Dartington College in Devon, England. We had roughly 50-60 people over the course of the evening.

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Dwelling: a trans-atlantic collaboration

Exchange: Emerging and Established Artists Come Together
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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 [...]

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