About Noelle

Noelle Whitehouse studied painting and glass blowing at the Cleveland Institute of Art for three years then graduated (BFA) from University of Tennessee. Her careers ranged from facilitating film festivals, originating  a personal chef company and creating a customized tutoring agency. Noelle taught jewelry making at the Orange Art Center and "Michelangelo and Me" a hybrid art-making/art history exploration for gifted children.  For the last seven years she has been painting full-time.  Noelle is interested in creating  an enveloping atmosphere in her paintings and finds that working with unique substrata, such as tar paper, enables this effect. She lives in Chagrin Falls, Ohio and Washington, Vermont.

Artist Statement

This  series of paintings aims to create an enveloping  atmosphere. I want to evoke what T.S. Eliot called "the still point of the turning world” - to capture the unexpected sense of contentment that overtakes us in boundless, sky-filled settings.  Working on tar paper with acrylic paint allows me to float layers of color that kindle elusive but potent memories.