Biography

Noad strives to capture spontaneity and directness between the image imagined and the image that emerges. A textured base is used, allowing for an organic coupling of the image and material.
Noad’s past work has been noted for her use of color and layered structure. Materials that indicate metaphoric content such as tar, charcoal, rust, mirror and wood fragments are used as well as acrylic paint. These are not merely surface adornments but are part of the layered structure of the painting and are selected for their inherent metaphoric qualities that allude to mutability. Noad scales her work so that the viewer is physically immersed in the image, and since water is often a subject treated, albeit in an abstract way, this is part of the viewing experience.  
Noad’s recent work "Views of The River" focuses on subject matter referring to the universe and its destructive and creative processes.
The river mirrors life experience and its movement, the passage of time is indicated by the lateral bands of landscapes, days and nights.  The river water is both a symbol of what is mutable and paradoxical, what is eternal. Like water we can envision our lives as both eternal and finite. The life force continues on in a manner which we can only imagine. Appearance changes but the cycle repeats. We flow as water does to the sea and it gives us up again into the formless unknown. 
Noad’s work is abstraction rooted in the natural world.  It toggles between inferred meaning and references to geology, biology and astronomy.  It's the poetry that comes from the unexpected juxtaposition of color and referred form that energizes and elevates the paintings.

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