Author Lindsay Clarke says, "In her current  project “I am the Family Face: Flesh Perishes, I Live On,” Kate  Noble explores the themes of family and flesh. Working through form and  avoiding line, her exotic updating of Old Master techniques uses the subdued  palette of oils favoured by 17thC portraitists, to recreate each sitter on a12” x 10” canvas which will find its place in a wall of images."

I live and work in Somerset. I studied Animation at UWE, Bristol finishing in 2009 (MA Media).  On the re-bound from studying, I went to Florence to spend some time at the Florence Academy of Art, doing portraiture.  There I learnt a completely new way of working, using a 17C palette, with 3 primary colours (vermillion, yellow ochre, cobalt blue, black and lead white)  My heroes have always been Goya, Rembrandt and Lucien Freud. John Singer Sargent said to his pupil in the early 1900’s “paint 50 portraits, and you will learn how to paint the human face’. So I set about my project and exhibit them together as one piece called;

“I am the Family Face: Flesh Perishes, I Live On”  (Thomas Hardy, ‘Inheritance’)