Noel Forster
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Noel Armstrong Forster, (June 15, 1932 – December 7, 2007) was a British artist who trained at King's College Newcastle a part of Durham University, graduating in 1957.
He was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland and married Eileen Conlan in 1962, later having three sons with her. In due course he became Principal lecturer in Painting at the Chelsea College of Art & Design in Chelsea as well as Artist-in-Residence and Supernumerary Fellow at Balliol College Oxford University. His art can best be described as abstract, colourful and usually involving a cross-weaved fabric of straight or curved parallel lines drawn by hand, often executed in oil on linen. He died in London.
"Noel was in my view the most important post-War abstract painter in England, and his work combined performance, intellectual rigour and the artist's craft. It was simultaneously clever and sensuous. He was an influential teacher too and a very gifted musician. But he was also larger than life." Stephen Bury, Curator, British Library, 8 December 2007
[edit] External links
- Chris Yetton, Noel Forster: Artist who believed that painting is the 'concretisation of light' (obituary), The Independent, 2 January 2008
- Noel Forster official website
- Detailed Profile at Flowers
- Aspects of his work with an Interview
- Obituary in The Times, 17 January 2008
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