Noel Paine is an English artist. Educated at Colfe’s School, London. He studied Art and Aesthetics at The Cardiff Metropolitan University (formerly The Cardiff Institute of Higher Education); The College of Charleston, South Carolina (he worked under Prof. Michael Tyzack and as studio assistant to David Novros). He completed an MA in Fine Art at Canterbury Christ Church University in Kent.
In 1995 he worked for a year in a studio in New York City. Returning to London in 1996, he worked at a Barbican Arts Trust studio, he was then awarded a ‘Fire Station’ residency with Acme Studios, London. From 2001 he worked from a studio at Trinity Buoy Wharf, before going to work in the Italian campagna, Rome and the surrounding region. He currently maintains a studio in Anticoli Corrado in Lazio, and in Vienna, Austria to where he moved in 2013.
Paine is a landscape painter. He divides his working practice between working directly outside in the landscape and within the studio. He paints predominately from drawings, completing large oil on canvas works in the studio. Although his pantings are widely recognised for their distinctive guration, the themes and ideas behind the paintings remain conceptually abstract.