Michele Noble Contemporary Artist

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Large Collage Drawings 2021

mixed media 2021 framed size 65 x 65 cm price inc. frame: £545.00

I am a contemporary visual artist living and working near the Humber in East Yorkshire. My post art practice began in the 1970s with figurative work in collage and fine art enamelling, followed by tiny land and seascapes and the experimentation in the MA years that resulted in the later abstract works. The new century threw up many personal difficulties including health problems. Unable to achieve much practical art work during this time, it was the the pandemic and lockdown that enabled me to focus on developing my practice. I found a different art world - computers, social media, websites. I felt as if I'd come straight from the stone age! It's a new begining, exciting but scary!

This work is larger than the previous two series I made. It was Lockdown and I ordered more frames off the Internet. When they arrived, there had been some misunderstanding and were not what I expected. They were larger and not the box type, but at least they were black to match the others. I had to rethink how I made them but this was a challenge, a good thing as it kicked me into a new approach. I used far more soft pastel and collaged with paper or thin card. The result surprised me. I never know when I start a piece how it wil turn out when completed, and these had been subconsciously influenced by the news like climate change or Covid.