August 4, 2021
Sometimes, it seems to me, that painting a better picture is about asking a better question. In this case I was attracted to a young stand of aspen against a sunny hillside.
And the very simple question is, what would the landscape look like if those greenish tree trunks were red?
Marshall
July 27, 2021
Three kids, Nicholas, Christina, and Sarsten, two kayaks and one paddle board, two dogs, Sula and Sam, equal one fun filled adventure on Flathead Lake. When you live near the shores of the largest fresh water lake in the west AND when it is the cleanest body of water of that size on the planet, the gravitational pull can be irresistible.
Especially when the temperatures are in the 90s!
Marshall
July 20, 2021
Santa Fe was extra fun this trip because our daughter Sarsten flew in from her home in LA to join me. We had beautiful accommodations (thanks to Ventana Fine Art,) visited world class galleries, reconnected with old friends, and, needless to say, ate great red AND great green chile! I’m already looking forward to heading back in mid October! Who wants to join us?
If you haven’t been to Santa Fe, make the trip. Get a room close to the Plaza or Canyon Road and forget about a car. You can walk everywhere. Except Meow Wolf. And you will want to call an Uber and see Meow Wolf!
Let’s keep in touch,
Marshall Noice
July 13, 2021
I just got back from a few days in Santa Fe with our daughter Sarsten. It was a red chile kind of long weekend. And, after tireless research, we’ve reconfirmed that the best red chile in town comes from the kitchen of The Shed, a long time favorite haunt of ours. AND, if the best red chile in the world comes from Santa Fe, and if the best red chile in Santa Fe comes from The Shed. Well, you can see where this train of thought is going
My exhibition at Ventana Fine Art looks stunning, if I do say so myself! It’s alway gratifying to see my work beautifully hung on the walls of a great gallery.
If you’re not able to get to Santa Fe to see the show, tune in to ventanafineart.com on Thursday, July 15th for a virtual guided tour. Wolfgang Mabry and I will be taking a look at the paintings and chatting about the work.
Join us!
Let’s keep in touch,
Marshall
June 29, 2021
Here’s a new look to my landscape painting! This piece started out in a very different direction. As the painting progressed it seemed to need an unusual (for me) approach to bring it to a point where it resonated with a sense of place. The place being the view from a house Jackie and I rented years ago, just north of Santa Fe.
At the end of the day I believe art should please the eye. It sounds simple. And it could be the “newness” of this painting that I’m so attracted to, but I will say, it pleases MY eye immensely.
Marshall
June 15, 2021
This painting is about as close to a monochromatic color scheme as I get! I thought I’d try using warm and cool blues over a warm toned underpainting. Admittedly, some of the warm blues snuck pretty close to alizarin crimson. I like it!
Crating this baby and sending it off to find its new life at Ventana Fine Art in Santa Fe.
My exhibit at Ventana opens on July 8th. I’ll be there for the reception on July 9th. Join us!
Marshall
June 8, 2021
One month from today my exhibition opens at Ventana Fine Artat 400 Canyon Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico! I would love it if you’d stop by, say hello, and have a look at my thirty eight newest paintings. Whew! Thirty eight, but who’s counting!
I confess I usually feel my most recent work is my best work ever, but the truth is, and it really is the truth, this is my best work ever.
I won’t be hard to spot. I’ll be the guy wandering around the gallery with a big smile on his face!
Marshall
June 1, 2021
When I think of the nineteenth century Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s work, his iconic figurative painting “The Kiss” immediately comes to mind. While this is certainly the best known of his paintings, he depicted a variety of subjects.
Lately I’ve been enjoying looking at his wonderful landscapes. He brings the same highly decorative style to every subject he portrays. The results are inspiring!
Marshall
May 25, 2021
I’ve mentioned in the past four painterly considerations I find important to my work. They are: light-dark, thick-thin, hard-soft, warm-cool. These are things I look for in my work when I’m nearing the end of the painting process. You can usually, but not always, see all four of these elements in my finished work.
Here’s what I’m talking about. Light-dark is pretty obvious, I think. I like to see light-dark contrast somewhere in the painting. Thick-thin refers to heavy impasto or lack thereof. Hard-soft is about adjacency, I like to see both hard edges and soft edges where colors are adjacent to one another. The edge quality seems to change the way in which colors “speak” to each other. And last of all, warm-cool. Well, here’s a pretty good example of that!
Let’s keep in touch,
Marshall
May 18, 2021
Years ago when my partner in crime Terry Nelson and I shared a studio space, our painting mantra was “Think it, Do it.”
What we were saying to ourselves was: if something pops into your head, don’t question it, don’t over-intellectualize it, act on it! That approach to art making really kept our creative juices flowing. We made hundreds of paintings. Looking back, that’s when I really learned to paint.
Sadly, Terry is long gone now, but his spirit lives with me in my studio. And our words of admonition to honor those creative ideas are ones I still live by.
Marshall
