Petrea Noyes

My work is not the product of computer-generated art- quite the opposite. My creative process is exactly the same as it was fifty years ago, but my tools and equipment have changed.

Working with a digital drawing tablet is magical- I use an Intous tablet to clone (copy sections from one source to another), paint and draw (with pixels rather than with vectors), and build my pieces much as I would build a conventional collage. My software consists of Picture Window, Adobe Essentials, and Painter X. I draw on the tablet while watching the piece evolve on my computer screen- something like patting your stomach while rubbing your head, it does take some practice.
Once I produce an image I like, I print it on specialty canvas with a 44-ich Epson archival pigment inkjet printer. When the inks cure, I stretch the canvas and 'aerially' drip absorbent ground white gesso over the piece which produces and 'overdrawing' effect on the image. I nmay use stencils, Posca paint pens, solid oil paint bars, more gesso and may coats of high gloss varnish in between the layers of acryics, oil bars and stencils.

I never start with a blank or white "˜canvas' but use something with colors or forms that I find appealing as a basis to begin a new...

Education

1964-65 Colorado State University, Fine Arts degree program

1965-67 Silvermine College of Art, AFA program

1968 Northwestern University

1969-72 University of Miami, BA

SOLO EXHIBITS
2016 Tidemark Gallery, Waldoboro Maine...2 person exhibition

2015 'Relativity'...West Gallery, Riverarts Damariscotta ME (June)

2014 Sarah's Cafe/Wiscassett Art Walk, Wiscasset ME

2013 Archipelago Gallery, Island Institute Rockland ME....2 person exhibition

2012 Stable Gallery Featured Artist, Main Salon, Damariscotta ME

2011 'New Work', Unity College Center for the Performing Arts, Unity ME

2011 Stable Gallery ‘Featured Artist:Main Salon’, Damariscotta ME

2010 'Eternal Whispers', 2-person exhibition, Harlow Gallery, Augusta ME

2009 ‘The Federle Project’, Harlow Gallery Annex, Augusta ME

2008 ‘Relatives’ Turner Center for the Arts, Turner ME

2007 'Machinations', The Stadler Gallery, Kingfield ME

2007 'Mixed Media', The Belfast Co-Op, Belfast ME

1988 'Stills', Old Lyme Center Gallery, Old Lyme CT

1987 ‘Petrea Noyes: New Work’, Old Lyme Art Center, Old Lyme CT

1979 'Stripes', Mystic Art Gallery, Mystic CT