Noel Forster
Noel Armstrong Forster (15 June 1932 – 7 December 2007) was a British artist who trained at King's College Newcastle a part of Durham University, graduating in 1957.
Forster was born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland and attended to Gosforth Grammar School.[1] He married Eileen Conlon 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. In 1978 he won the John Moores Painting Prize[2] 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
"Noel was a splendid friend, and a wonderful painter.He thought endlessly about the relations of paint and light, and talked with extraordinary clarity - and complexity - about making works of art. He taught me a lot about looking.The ideas behind his own work were intricate and uncompromising."
http://www.noelforster.co.uk AS Byatt, Author, Dec 2007
"Noel Forster was an adventurous and productive artist whose glowing, audacious personality looked out from his canvasses." Obituary in The Times, 17 January 2008[dead link] Bernard Cohen, Artist, Dec 2007
References
[edit]- ^ Cohen, Bernard (8 January 2008). "Noel Forster Obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 25 October 2008.
- ^ "John Moores Prize". Archived from the original on 9 October 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2009.
External links
[edit]- 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[dead link]
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