CONNECTED THREADS
REVEAL TWICE AS MUCH - 145 x 110 cm - oil on linen - 2024
Night takes its toll when day breaks
Headfirst - 140 x 105 cm - oil on linen - 2023
Forecast - 110 x 90 cm - Watercolor and oil on linen - 2023
Dear, headlights - 100 x 78 cm - oil on linen - 2023
Dialectic - 110 x 90 cm - Watercolor and oil on linen - 2023
Remembering not to forget to - 110 x 90 cm - Watercolor and oil on linen - 2023
Idiosyncrasies and idioms
Night fell, day broke - 140 x 105 cm - oil on linen - 2023
It’s grown to be the most normal part of the routine: sliding in and out of bed, whether seamless or laboured. What might lay at one’s feet, as we tread with care, tiptoe, one and then the other. Enclosed by steam as the mirror fogs up, my mind races in a stream of inconsistencies: where was my gaze? Did you blink just then? It looked one way, felt another. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men, surely they can put it together again? When we had finally unpacked our baggage, the room felt small, cramped even. But you can’t make a home unless you unpack, and it’s always a mess at first, right? I wonder who is doing the dishes tonight. Myth comes to mind, the Greeks of the past and their insight. Dear Sisyphus, did you find meaning in the struggle? Did the struggle fill your heart? Should we think of you as happy? On the other hand the dishes can wait until the morning. We should go to bed. All the king’s horses and all the king’s men.Humpty dumpty - 110 x 63 cm - oil on linen - 2023
When the rug is gone - 250 x 153 cm - oil on linen - 2023
Q&A - 85 x 63 cm - oil on linen - 2023
Past and present - 150 x 145 cm - oil on linen - 2023
Shower #4? - 90 x 77 cm - oil on linen - 2023
To and fro - 180 x 153 cm - oil on linen - 2023
Beyond the seas
Blue 2 - 200 x 185 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
In Noah’s paintings, a blue sofa becomes an ocean and the bodys rafts. Floating within a domestic ocean, his subjects pose as a body, just a bunch of limbs. Posed in this obscure way gives us – the viewer – an opportunity to consider their thoughts, their relationship to themselves, their raft and to Noah – who seeks to create an equal space between himself and his subjects; lowering barriers to create illustrations of intimacy, connection and respect – transcending the realms of our bodies in search of connections and entanglements not of our present spaces, but further out, beyond the seas. Ultramarine blue is made with the pigment lapis lazuli. A pigment that, during the Italian renaissance, was so hard to obtain (and expensive to use) that its use was restricted to paint only the robe of the Virgin Mary. We can’t touch the blue sky nor can we fill a glass with blue water, the colour is illusive, it surrounds us but it’s constantly out of reach. It’s for this reason that the colour, so often, symbolically presents dreams, the heavens and the unconscious mind. Noah’s series of paintings presented here, refers directly to the Italian word ultramarino, which translates to Beyond the seas.Blue 1 - 178 x 148t cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 3 - 300 x 156 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 4 - 220 x 176 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 6 - 170 x 137 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 5 - 200 x 185 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 8 - 200 x 154 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 10 - 270 x 200 cm - oil on canvas - 2020 - 2021
Blue 7 - 200 x 160 cm - oil on canvas - 2019
Blue 9 - 260 x 165 cm - oil on canvas - 2020
Untitled - 150 x 135 cm - oil on canvas - 2021
Hard cold tiles makes his muscles contract he’s tense turning to stone, he’s longing for the warmth of the water longing for her warmth. sheas floating, dreaming where is she why is she leave. Untitled - 140 x 110 cm - oil on canvas - 2021
Isolation. Your life stops in its tracks and your reality is now to be bed ridden, a sick individual not permitted to see anyone. The world has shrunk and is now the size of a “double standard bed” you make an attempt at leaving but your once able body can’t carry itself and the bed becomes a life boat, you look for land but its empty seas wherever you look.Untitled - 75 x 65 cm - oil on canvas - 2022
Untitled - 20 x 18 cm - oil on canvas - 2021
You are uncertain about my sincerity. Please let me show you a reality where I’m as wrapped up in you as I claim to be. I think this is what it looks like, loosing the ability to distinguish my feelings from yours. Do you believe me?Last of may - 100 x 70 cm - oil on canvas - 2023
Pomodoro - 30 x 24 cm - oil on canvas - 2021
Untitled - 60 x 27 cm - oil on canvas - 2022
Untitled - 150 x 125 cm - oil on canvas - 2022
Thursday lunch - 70 x 40 cm - oil on canvas - 2022
AS SEEN - 140 x 100 cm - oil on linen - 2024
Untitled - 45 x 25 cm - oil on canvas - 2022