'I grew up in Kyle of Lochalsh in the West Highlands of Scotland. After studying a four year honours degree course at Gray's School of Art in Aberdeen, I moved back to my home town and have set up a studio/ workshop on the West Coast of Scotland, in Kyleakin (Isle of Skye).
My work centres around printmaking in various mediums; predominantly etching, relief printing and screenprinting. Working on a variety of surfaces including hand made paper pulp gives a great range and progression to my artwork.
My work in simple terms is a reaction to 'place'. I take visual information from places which I visit personally and create abstract pieces derived from this information. I tend towards urban environments and translate the built form of a town or city into a constructed artwork.
I am interested in shape, colour, surface, pattern, texture and iconography, and I collate these stimulus in the form of photographs which I then take into the studio and work from. Collage forms a strong basis for my image making, which is developed through the media of fine art print. I enjoy working with different surfaces and materials to produce constructed, three-dimensional, mixed media pieces, which are informed by 'place' but abstract in their outcome.'
Emma Noble
Old Schoolhouse
Kyle of Lochalsh
IV40 8DA
