Kathleen Noyes

After attending art school at California College of the Arts, I became interested in furthering my education as an artist by getting my masters degree in Creative Arts Therapy. I was fascinated with being able to help others gain insight into their subliminal lives through creating art. While making art is challenging and joyful work for me, expressing myself without words has also encouraged a deeper understanding of my inner life and assists me in being dedicated painter.

In my paintings and mix media pieces I am most interested in portraying figures. These subjects are somewhat obscured, while revealing facets of what is hidden beneath the superficiality of appearance. My work always evinces elements of mystery and the surreal in human life. The figures are often of ambiguous race, sexuality, feeling, mood; I may catch a person in a moment of amusement, hunger, confusion, passion, or expansion but do not begin working with any literal concept or message. I explore the duality of innocence colliding with darkness, but my art reveals something beyond an overt or intended message. I seek to reveal the truth, the stories within the stories, lying in these images without deliberately putting it there, and often don’t realize what...

M.A. Creative Arts Therapy
Lone Mountain College San Francisco, CA

B.A. Psychology
San Francisco State University San Francisco, CA

California College of the Arts 1970-1972
Oakland, CA

2016
Two for the Show
Toot & Tommy's Gallery
Sorrento, ME

2016
Wine Cellar Gallery
Ellsworth, ME

2015
Grand Theatre
Ellsworth, ME

2014 Wine Cellar Gallery
Ellsworth, ME

2013
Tilia Gallery
Blue Hill, ME

2013
Ellsworth Library
Ellsworth, ME

2013
Inside/Outside
Toot & Tommy's Gallery
Sorrento, ME

2012
Toot & Tommy's Gallery
Sorrento, ME

2011
Aarhus Gallery,
Belfast, ME

2011
Maine Art Scene Online Juried Virtual Showcase

2009
Spurling Gallery
Corea, ME

2003
Union of Maine Visual Artists Show
Blum Gallery, College of the Atlantic
Bar Harbor, ME