petrea noyes

I was ?driven? to make art on my laptop computer several decades ago. My husband and I ran a small business for many years which required me to sit at a desk 8-10 hours a day, seven days a week. It was hell. I?ve been a painter for over 60 years, and not being able to work at what I love was maddening.

So I found an ?art? software program and began figuring out how to use it to make paintings on my computer. Several years later I replaced my desktop printer (with which I printed my ?paintings?) with a n Epson pigment inkjet printer (sprays pigment inks, not dye-based inks).

I use 5 software programs, a laptop, and an Intous tablet and stylus to make my ?paintings?.

Mu current work is based on two family photo albums from 1918 which my Norwegian grandmother gave me. I find some suitable background and digitally create a ?collage? by ?painting? the figure(s) over the selected background. After this is done I can then alter the color, lighting, and size.

I print the image with the pigment printer, let the inks set overnight, and then machine wash the canvas. I re-wet the canvas and stretch it on stretcher bars. After the canvas

Petrea Noyes

Bio/CV

Born 1946

1950-1964 Studied with Connecticut artist Harold Wolcott

1965-1967 AFA degree program, Silvermine College of Art

New Canaan, CT

1969-1971 BA, English/Art/Journalism University of Miami FL

I have exhibited in several hundred juried shows throughout the Northeast since 1962.

My work is in a number of private and corporate collections including the Marriott Corporation, the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and Colorado State University.