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  • Old Dartington Nursery | oil painting by Noel Hefele

    Old Dartington Nursery

    This painting documented a space that was 50 meters from the gallery. We tried to query the audience for a title, but that effort was largely unsuccessful. 4’x4′ Oil on canvas 2010

  • Oil Painting of the Totnes East Gate by Noel Hefele

    Persistence Under Change

    Totnes is a ‘Transition Town,’ yet this view of the East Gate along the high street remains largely unchanged over many years. 4’x4′ Oil on canvas 2010

  • Oil Painting of a Harvested Field in Dartington by Noel Hefele

    The Harvesters

    With this painting, I started to see neglect and abandonment in a cyclical perspective. 4’x4′ Oil on Canvas 2010

  • Oil Painting of the Old Milk Factory in Totnes by Noel Hefele

    The Atmospheric Principle

    4’x4′ Oil on Canvas 2010

  • Dwelling | Preview of the Results

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    Constance Merriman and I collaborated on this photo experiment which we exhibited in the Landscape Thinks Itself In Us show in January 2010.  It will be showing at the Exchange in a more intimate format from February 5th until April 17th. The exact same video file is posted below to Vimeo. I heard they have better…

  • Exhibition Framing Statement

    19th Century French painter, Paul Cezanne, once wrote in a letter to a friend; ‘the landscape thinks itself in me… and I am its consciousness’. It is this relationship between the land and us, the intertwined and interdependent relationship between the observer and the observed, the inhabitant and the inhabited, that is the focus of…

  • Exhibition Opening Night

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    Nice party on January 21st, 2010. Dartington College in Devon, England. We had roughly 50-60 people over the course of the evening.

  • Dwelling: a trans-atlantic collaboration

    I am very lucky to have been invited to collaborate on an artwork with my longtime Pittsburgh friend, STUDIO collegue and fellow landscape painter, Connie Merriman.  She asked if I would like to work with her for the Associate Artists of Pittsburgh Centenial Exhibition.  Pittsburgh is a very special place for me, and it’s magnetic…

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