News
News, February 2023.
Twenty first century inner city starter home.
I’m delighted at last to be able to say that I’ve been selected as one of the artists included in the Leeds Artists’ Show, 2023. The exhibition aims to show the quality and range of artwork being produced currently within the Leeds region.
The painting I am showing is, “Twenty-first century inner city starter home”, which I completed in 2021. Situated close to the main bus station in Leeds, I stumbled upon this place some years ago and was fascinated by how the patina on the old doors and brickwork contrasts beautifully with the more modern, refurbished areas and the high-tech additions on the roof. I thought I had found a jewel and returned to the building many times before deciding on an approach to making the painting. In November 2019 I was shocked to find that the site had been taken over, inhabited, evidenced by the tent pitched on the rough ground. How could I make a painting and not include this? I think it says much about the way we live in Britain today.
The exhibition opens at Leeds City Art Gallery, close to the Town Hall, on !5th February and runs until 30th April. For further details please visit
New Studio.
At the end of last year, due to problems relating to the energy crisis, I had to move studio after a wonderful 14 years in my last one. I really didn’t want to leave Redbrick and was thankful when the management and directors here agreed to find me an alternative space. After weeks of hard graft and great support from good friends I was pleased to meet my deadline of being in before Christmas, completing the move on 20th December. I’m now settled here and I’m loving it! Below are a series of photos showing how the new studio progressed.
Commission News.
Last summer I had the good fortune to be invited to paint a local farm. I was very familiar with the location, having run and walked over the farmland regularly over the past 40 years! The work was delivered last summer, but I forgot to post images on the website. Last weekend, chatting with the farmer and his wife, they asked me why I hadn’t yet put any photos of their painting on the website. So, with apologies for the delay, here they are.
Barleyfields Farm
Barleyfields Farm detail 1
Barleyfields Farm detail 2
Barleyfields Farm detail 3
The Football Art Prize.
The Football Art Prize is a new open exhibition opportunity for artists worldwide, created to coincide with the 2022 World Cup by Touchstones, Rochdale, with generous support from Arts Council England, to celebrate art and football.
The Football Art Prize Exhibition, which features two of my paintings, has now completed its run at the Millenium Galleries in Sheffield and is now on its way to Sunderland. It will be at the Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens from Saturday 19th November until Saturday 11th March, 2023.
The two paintings I had selected are “Sunday Morning” and “Changing Rooms”.
“Sunday morning” is set close to Auntie Audrey’s old house in Ravensthorpe. I have painted the garages many times, but in this one I included a football match being played in the fields behind. It reminds me very much of the fields we used to play on as kids, and how on Sunday mornings we had to leave the pitch so that blokes from local teams could play their matches. I first exhibited this painting in the Lynn Painter Stainers Prize Exhibition at the Mall Galleries back in 2013.
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“Changing rooms” is a very simple painting of the changing rooms at Marsden FC and is one of a series of paintings I did in Marsden back in 2017. A series of objects in the foreground are references to an incident which happened many years ago, not in Marsden I should add, involving a friend who happened to be a referee. I will say no more!
Tony Noble, February 2023.