Author Archives: admin

October 27, 2021

Join me for a two day pastel workshop in Helena sponsored by The Art Center and the Montana Pastel Society. I’ll be demonstrating in soft pastel. Students may work in any medium they choose, but much of the information will be specific to pastel painting. I look forward to seeing you there!

Some of the things we’ll cover in the workshop:

• The materials I use and why I prefer them
• My approach to the use of color
• How to use color theory to create dramatic color compositions
• How I use non literal colors in making value studies
• How I simplify the subject to create a highly abstract interpretation of the landscape 
• How to use fixatives without diminishing color intensity
• Mounting and framing considerations

Workshop: January 8th & 9th 9 am – 4 pm
Reception: January 7th 5-7 pm

“My primay goal is to create a work of art that resonates with the spirit of the place. All other considerations are secondary to this overriding purpose.”

~ Marshall Noice

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

Marshall Noice has been creating images of landscapes for nearly a half century. He works extensively in photography, oil painting and pastel painting. Noice also works in traditional printmaking methods including etching, collagraph, and monotype.

His art has been featured in dozens of magazine articles and is included is several books. In 2013 his paintings of the Tetons were chosen for the publication voted 2013 Art Book of the year by the National Booksellers Association, Art of The National Parks, Historic Connections, Contemporary Interpretations.

In 1993 Noice was honored with the Montana Governor’s Cultural Trust Award. In 1999 he received the Flathead Valley Cultural Achievement Award. In 2012 he received grants from The Montana Arts Council, and The National Endowment for The Arts. Noice serves on the Montana State University School of Art Advisory Council.

Noice’s art has been showcased in over 150 museum and gallery exhibitions. His work is shown in galleries across the country, and is in the collections of museums worldwide.

He lives with his family in Kalispell, Montana.

October 19, 2021

What a vivid memory this painting has for me. My wife Jackie, daughter Sarsten, and I were on the first leg of a drive from Kalispell to Santa Fe. We had just crossed the Little Blackfoot River south of Montana Highway 200, and right in the middle of the road, sitting in the morning sun was a black bear cub!

After the little guy decided to amble west into the trees, I looked to the east and this scene presented itself. Unexpected inspiration!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

October 12, 2021

I’m heading to Santa Fe for the annual Canyon Road Paint Out! The event features dozens of artists working outdoors at galleries on Canyon Road. I’ll be at Ventana Fine Art, 400 Canyon Road, from 10:00 til 2:00 this Saturday, the 16th.

This is the excuse you’ve been waiting for to make that fall trip to New Mexico. Join us! Santa Fe is beautiful this time of year.

Stop by and say hello. Maybe we can walk up to Johnnie’s Cash Store and grab a tamale!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

Last week I posted a snapshot of the colorful ginalla flame amur maple in our front yard. Here’s the painting bearing witness to it’s extraordinary fall color.

I’ve always been best at finding my inspiration close to home. In this case very close to home!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

September 28, 2021

Fall is a beautiful time of year in Northwest Montana. The days are still warm and nights dip down near freezing. We’re enjoying splendid fall colors this year. Case in point, this Flame Amur Maple we planted in front of our home nearly 20 years ago. Where did the time go?

The aspens in the foreground were planted the very same day as I recall. Sometimes a painter simply has to cultivate his very own inspiration!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

September 20, 2120

I wanted to show you a recent painting by our daughter Sarsten. “Pony Run” has an interesting visual pedigree. If you’re an art history buff you may recognize that the horses were inspired by the groundbreaking photographs by Eadweard Muybridge.

And if you screw up your eyes and use your imagination you may see remnants of one of my landscape paintings drifting through the horse imagery. I don’t give up on any of my paintings easily, continuing to work on them until they reach a point of resolution for me. But in this case I was happy to offer up one of my less than successful works for Sarsten to paint on top of!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

September 14, 2021

I recently picked up a copy of the new book, Landscape Painting Now and I’m enjoying it a great deal. Especially the landscape paintings of my heroes Wayne Thiebaud, Eric Katz, and David Hockney.

The extensive compendium features 400 illustrations of recent paintings by 80 artists. An extensive essay by Barry Schwabsky, art critic for The Nation, adds interesting historic references.

The book is an ambitious survey which takes a global view of the subject and makes a case for the unprecedented viability of, well, landscape painting now!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

September 7, 2021

When I moved to Montana in 1968 I was excited to be moving close to The Big Mountain. I thought Montana was all about skiing! I had no idea how important Glacier National Park and Flathead Lake would become to my then young life. When I did “discover” Glacier, I immediately made the decision to hike every mile of every trail in the park. It remains a goal I have yet to accomplish even though I do, from time to time, after 54 years living in the shadow of the park, still make tracks on previously untravelled ground.

Last Saturday we took a drive on The Going To The Sun Road. It was like visiting life long friends as we passed familiar vistas and rivers and ridge tops that I know like the back of my hand. Here’s one many of you will recognize.

Thanks to my friend Steve Potter for the fly rod caught sockeye we dined on while enjoying this iconic view!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

August 31, 2021

There comes a time when I must make a clean break and a fresh start. About once a year I toss the piece of glass that functions as my palette and begin again. It’s rather cathartic. I always enjoy laying out new colors on an unsullied surface.

Out with the old. In with the new!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

August 24, 2021

I recently had the pleasure of visiting Limnal Lacrimosa, Kalispell’s new free public art installation. Rainwater falls melodiously into salt fired lachrymatory vessels inside the old Kalispell Malting and Brewing Company building. It’s an amazing multi-sensory experience and I’m already looking forward to the next time!

You can schedule an appointment to visit the installation here. Enjoy!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

“Limnal Lacrimosa celebrates the richness of the valley, from the glaciers and lakes to the cultural histories of art and ceramics. Sited in the original home of the Kalispell Malting and Brewing Company, it also celebrates the important legacies of breweries in Kalispell. 

To build the exhibition, American artist Mary Mattingly has been collecting snow melt and rainwater, some that has dripped through holes in the building’s roof. Cycling water through tubing just below the ceiling, she can evoke the feeling of rain inside the building to create a meditative space. The drips are caught in lachrymatory vessels while the sounds of the droplets hitting the containers echo throughout the space. Eventually the vessels fill, water spills onto the floor and the cycle repeats itself.”