Artist statement

   Georgia Noble is an oil painter from the North West of England who uses her practice to look back and examine what relics arise from the exploration of memory and time. 

   The gradual pace of childhood in relation to perceived time itself is a particular point of interest and themes that arise in her work often focus on or include a significant link to growing up in the seaside town of Blackpool in the 90s and early 00s, where traces of the past surrounded her in abundance. Her paintings, therefore, have a comforting yet uncanny feel to them, in the way that an object of a deceased relative might find its way into a modern home and belong in a way that doesn’t quite make sense.  

   Noble often connects these explorations in compositions that include elements of the natural world as a reminder of our transitory existence. Growing up she spent a lot of time working on the coast, looking out to sea. She believes that when you have time to think, or you allow yourself time to think and remember, it is often the simplistic, the overlooked and the seemingly mundane that comes to mind when you recall different points in life, particularly in childhood. The thoughts and memories that are used in Noble’s paintings are combined with reference material she finds or researches and the resulting compositions give an unexpected significance to these themes and their subject matters that echo with familiarity.  

   Time is an important entity for Noble, as it is important to us all. In an era of demand and acceleration she aims to create work that encourages stillness and reflection. She wants the viewer to spend time in liminal space, examining what has been left over from the past.