Noel Steele
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Education
Self taught artist, high school visual arts courses and some post secondary art history. I have my Structural Aircraft Mechanics from Sault College, and Attended Trent University, majoring in History. I learned to paint from building models as a young one, drawing from tracing books of monster trucks, big rigs and sports cars. There was a tough time in my life about four years back. This was the same year I got an easel for Christmas, some canvasses, and had some brushes oil paint previously from painting in high school. I never looked back.
Method
Keep the mistakes. If you keep enough of them, you have created a style all your own. You are in complete control of how often you create, and to what calibre you expect from yourself. The paintings that don’t stand the test of time get painted over and used again, can’t let failure beat you down. Try again; repeat. Keep the mistakes. Bright colours contrasting heavy subject material or landscapes shown in new ways by means of offbeat colour pallets are my thing. Mixing colours with my own way of using texture is continually fascinating observing light interacting with how the paint is applied.
Influences
Don’t mind the name drops, there’s always something to learn from the past, and other living artists. Bacon taught me that a painting is a window to a person, and the face is the key. The Group of Seven, Van Gogh, Nelly Francoise and Jose Rivas taught me about colour and composition. Michelangelo taught me to be rebellious. Pollock taught me to passionate.
