About

Sarah Noble was born in Marion Virginia.  She studied painting at Chautauqua School of Art, The New York Studio School, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The International School of Art, Anderson University, and completed her MFA at Western Carolina University.  She has previously taught drawing at Pennsylvania College of Art, and currently lives and works with her husband and daughter in York Pennsylvania.  

Artist Statement

Whether life is hemmed in by painting, or painting is hemmed in by life, the times I have felt some bigger deeper breath of that life have been when painting it. I am interested in painting an essence of this ever shifting ephemeral quality related to memory of places and moments, both dreamed and lived. I'm intrigued by, and explore the interplay of light and forms as they exist around us and are turned both made a vapor and crystalized by memory and imagination. Whether sun drenched or lit by whatever dusk glow remains, that haze of a world created by movement, changing light and time has an essence and haze of ephemeral beauty that I work to bring to my paintings. Through scrubbed layers of color with worn down brushes and translucency to that is built up over many reworkings and visits to each painting, I breath a little deeper, the ever shifting light and time of life.

*In 2015, Sarah discovered the life’s work of unknown York, PA Outsider Artist, Ralph Henry Eck, Jr. She has conducted extensive research and documentation of Eck’s life and work over 5 years. She continues to work to preserve the legacy of his life and work through writing, exhibition planning, and aiding plans toward museum placement.

 Publications:

(essay) https://issuu.com/mucollegeofahss/docs/ralph_henry_eck__jr._catalog

(lino prints) http://www.jlconrad.com/species

Press:

https://lancasteronline.com/features/the-joy-of-painting-mu-s-eckert-art-gallery-hosts/article_c1b1402a-5bb3-11e9-9ada-eb1be42b3690.html