Marshall Noice

July 5, 2022

I’m heading south this Thursday for my annual exhibit at Ventana Fine Art. I can’t wait to see my 32 newest paintings on the walls of my all time favorite Santa Fe gallery. This may be the 25th year in a row that I’ve had a show open in Santa Fe in early July, but who’s counting! In summers past I’ve called time out and allowed myself a bit of a summer vacation after the show opens. This summer I’m keeping the hammer down and jumping right back in the studio. Happily jumping right back in!

See you in Santa Fe at Ventana Fine Art, 400 Canyon Road.

“So much to do, there’s plenty on the farm.
I’ll sleep when I’m dead”

~ Warren Zevon

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

June 28, 2022

Pastel sketches are an integral part of my art making practice. These four small pieces are one step away from a larger, perhaps very much larger, oil painting.

Typically I’ll work out compositional and color issues in pastel where I can work very quickly and directly. Honestly, this is often where the unbridled creativity happens. Maybe that’s why I love these pastels so much! What do you think?

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Marshall

June 21, 2022

Book that flight! Come and join me in Santa Fe for the opening of my exhibition at Ventana Fine Art. Mark your calendar for Friday, July 8th. The artist reception is from 4-6p.m. and I would really and truly love to see you there.

You can take a peek at the new paintings online at ventanafineart.com

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

June 7, 2022

Feels good to have a pastel in hand again! I’ve been happily working away in oil to keep up with demand for my work. But it has been a long hiatus. Too long.

I think my work in general leans toward a decidedly intuitive approach to art making. But with the directness of pastel it becomes even more so. Sometimes it feels as though my oil paintings are trying to “catch up” with my pastels. I’m enthralled with this warm manganese violet color that turned up!

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Marshall

May 31, 2022

A little haze lifting, a row of young deciduous trees, sun filtered through the foliage, that’s more than enough information to get me started on a painting!

I love the quality of light in this one, even if it does lean a bit more toward realism than I typically prefer.

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Marshall

May 24, 2022

Often I’ll paint from a pastel sketch that I’ve made on location. This painting was done from memory, a different approach but not unusual for me.

The scene is a recollection of a fall visit to an old friend’s orchard on the east shore of Flathead Lake. There are fruit trees galore along the lake. An abundance of apples, apricots, plums, and cherries fill the roadside stands and local grocery stores every fall here in Northwest Montana.

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Marshall

May 17, 2022

Long ago when my partner in crime Terry Nelson and I shared a painting studio, we would toss pithy aphorisms back and forth as we worked on paintings. At least WE thought the aphorisms were pithy!

Some, like, “think it, do it,” became mantras that spurred continued frantic activity. Others, like, “less is more,” spurred, well, nothing. We knew knowing when to quit was critical. And we eventually got to be pretty good about taking our own advice!

My original intention for “July Sky, North Valley” was to paint a grove of aspen in front of this iconic barn that sits a few miles north of my studio in Kalispell. But now I like it just as it is. Less is more? What do you think?

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Marshall

May 10, 2022

There’s one thing I can count on when I spend time in Santa Fe. I think it’s partly the vibrant art culture, and partly the searing quality of the light that, without fail, bring me new ideas. On my most recent sojourn to The City Different I detoured in an unfamiliar direction as far as color goes. I moved from blue to green to turquoise to violet, and never had the urge to add the jangly, tension creating disharmonious colors that are so characteristic of my compositions.

This might be the most harmonious painting I’ve ever done. I can see nothing to add, or subtract for that matter. It must be something in the air!

“We have got it get it together,
We have got to get it together, now.”
Thunderclap Newman

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

May 3, 2022

I’m looking forward to the 2022 Canyon Road Spring Art Festival this Saturday May 7th. I’ll be out in the New Mexico sunshine at Ventana Fine Art painting from 11-3. It’s an annual rite of the season when dozens of artists set up their easels outside galleries on Canyon Road and thousands of art lovers stroll the road and make it a party!

Stop by and say hello. I’ll be the guy in front of a brightly colored landscape painting with brush in hand and a big smile on my face!

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall

April 26, 2022

I’m in the studio with pastel in hand because today’s the day to send thank you gifts to all my collectors who contributed to my daughter Sarsten’s Go Fund Me campaign.

I’m happy to report that, with help from many of you, she met her goal, the music video is in production, and will be going online (and going viral if I have anything to say about it) mid June.

Check back, we’ll be posting the link to the video “Poison The Well” by her band, Surprise Baby.

Let’s keep in touch,

Marshall