Kezia Noel-Paton, Artist
Lively and colourful landscapes, seascapes, natural, and imagined objects, moving at times towards fantasy or abstraction.
Some of these paintings are also available, or can be created, as
high-quality prints or ready-to-hang posters via my Etsy shop. Please feel free to contact me if you cannot find the one you want.
Kezia's Story:
I have always enjoyed painting; my mother was an artist and some of my earliest memories are of a Saturday children’s art class she organised with her friends. During WW2 we were in North Wales and have frequently returned there for holidays. Mountains and sea often appear in my pictures.
I studied medicine and then did hospital ‘house jobs’ for 3 years which left little time or energy for painting, although in Brighton I did develop a love of the South Downs, and painted the first of many pictures of the Seven Sisters!
General Practice and 2 children followed with only sporadic opportunities for painting.
As the children grew older we had holidays in the Scilly Isles and then further abroad; I seized the opportunity to sketch and take photos, and returning home, I started a long succession of photo albums to which I still return at times in search of ideas and inspiration.
I have had no formal art education but retirement brought the opportunity to attend weekly drawing classes and several productive and very enjoyable ‘Short Courses’ at West Dean.
I was a member of Horsham Artists from their inception and shared the excitement of watching the group grow from its beginning to the lively and efficient organisation it is today. Sadly, I can no longer physically take part in their autumn Art Fairs and summer Art Trails but I learnt a great deal from them about exhibiting and marketing my work, and made many good friends.
I have never managed to stick to a consistent style, but take comfort in Leonora Carrington who, as her long-time friend and patron Edward James said: “She…never relinquished her love of experimentation; the results being that she [was] able to diversify and explore a hundred or more techniques for the expression of her creative powers.”
I would sum up my work as: Colour, Nature, Imagination
Kezia is a painter living in Sussex who has exhibited at the Mall Gallery, the Chichester Ox Market, and Worthing's Montague Gallery. She is an associate member of the Association of Sussex Artists, and has exhibited many times with Horsham Artists at their summer Trails and autumn Fairs.
She continues to paint and exhibit where possible, but is now exploring the possibilities of marketing on line and through social media.
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