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April 13, 2021

Sometimes it pays to turn around and see where you’ve come from, literally and figuratively. I rarely struggle with finding inspiration for my paintings, it seems the ideas just keep coming.

Luckily for me, if I DO feel even slightly stuck, I take a walk. There’s no substitute for living in a beautiful part of the world for a landscape painter. Having said that, I imagine if I lived in downtown L.A. I’d be painting the urban landscape, which actually sounds equally interesting. I’m a life long fan of Richard Diebenkorn’s cityscapes.

As I was walking in Lone Pine State Park, which is literally out my back door, I turned around and was staring at my next painting. Here’s the sketch.

“I was looking back, to see if she was looking back, to see if I was looking back at her.”
~John Mayall

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

April 6, 2021

Just four more days to ride the lifts on Big Mountain in Whitefish! The end of ski season always makes me a little sad. Fortunately it is NOT nearly the end of ski season. Just the end of riding the ski lifts. Starting next week, we who are hopelessly addicted to sliding down a slippery slope will be plastering on the skins and walking up to the top. Great fun! Unfortunately one run a day is about all I’m good for. But I do, in fact, enjoy the climb up almost as much as the ski down.

Yours truly, all skinned up and ready to hike! I’ll send you a picture from the top!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

March 23, 2021

Although color is a language that speaks to each of us differently, viewers of Noice’s works tend to experience similarly medicinal effects. “I think of being around Marshall’s paintings as somewhat analogous to the Japanese concept of forest bathing: immersing oneself in the sights, sounds, and fragrances of the forest to foster optimal physical, emotional, and mental health,” says Wolfgang Mabry, a consultant at Ventana Fine Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “People want to feel the way Marshall’s paintings make them feel – alive, colorful, free, and exactly where they want to be.”

~ Excerpt from “An Infatuation with Color“
by Rose MeMaris
Big Sky Journal, Winter 2020

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Marshall

March 16, 2021

It’s unusual for me to limit myself to one color when working. But it does happen from time to time. Here’s a recent painting inspired by countless trips through Colorado in the fall, when the aspens are eye-poppingly yellow. If you’ve been to that part of the world at that time of year, I’ll bet you, like me, have the scene indelibly etched into your visual memory!

Honestly, the experience is anything BUT mellow.

No other color required.

“I’m just mad about saffron

Saffron’s mad about me”

~ Donovan

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Marshall

March 9, 2021

Here’s the first iteration of what has become a motif for me recently. It began as an experimentation in mark making. Inspired by Damien Hirst’s recent cherry tree paintings, I decided to try a similar approach to paint application but with a decidedly different approach to color composition. This, and each of the paintings in this series, relies on a complementary color relationship to create a dynamic and tensional statement.

Orange against blue, yellow-orange against blue-violet, yellow-green against red-violet, and in this case green against red. Profound? Not really. But it doesn’t take a lot to keep engaged with color! It is my obsession.

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Marshall

March 2, 2021

Here’s the winter issue of Go Local, our very own, very cool quarterly local periodical! And in case you’re wondering (of course you are) that IS yours truly decked out in all white on the cover.

Kudos to Katie Cantrell and Mandy Mohler for their exceptional work. Those two did a great job with the writing and photography respectively. Loads of talent from the entire Go Local crew.

Check out the article online and you’ll learn much more than you ever though you needed to know about this soon to be even more notorious painter!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

February 23, 2021

I’m enthralled with these mixed media pieces created by my daughter Sarsten. The kid has got it going on! They take me back to Dorr Bothwell’s book NOTAN. If you’re fascinated by black and white and if you haven’t read it, do so!

Sometimes no color is the best choice. It has been a long time since I’ve worked in black and white. It once was my exclusive approach to depicting the landscape, back when I was exploring the world with a large format camera loaded with Kodak Tri X film! I’ll post some of those photos one of these days.

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Marshall

To view more of Sarsten Noice’s art visit montanamodernfineart.com/sarsten-noice-1

February 16, 2021

Time to say goodbye to the colors of 2020. Every year about this time I trash my well used palette and start with a fresh, unsullied piece of glass to mix my oil paints on. So here’s one last glimpse of the remnants of a year’s worth of painting!

Out with the old. In with the new!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

February 9, 2021

According to this 2000 Guide to Jackson Hole Art Galleries “Marshall Noice fuses the tradition of plein air with the freedom of abstraction.”

That’s as true today as it was 21 years ago!

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Marshall

February 2, 2021

I’m enthralled with this elegant new small work! I’m interested in the complexity of the layered imagery. The sophistication of the color composition and the mixed media process used by the artist are intriguing to me. And I love the nontraditional approach to realism (no huge surprise here.)

The work was done by one of my three extraordinarily talented daughters, Sarsten Noice!

See more of her work at montanamodernfineart.com.

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall Noice