CHATSWORTH REFLECTED - Lewis Noble Exhibition now on at Chatsworth

Derbyshire based artist LEWIS NOBLE has spent the past year working with Chatsworth creating a new body of work in response to the estate. The finished work is now on display at Chatsworth in the Carriage House and Cavendish Rooms and will be open to the public from March 11th. The exhibition will continue throughout April, then transfer to The Hart Gallery, London in May.

There are 30 paintings on display ranging from small work on paper completed in the landscape as well as eight large scale studio canvases.

Lewis has been at Chatsworth since May 2008, producing paintings and drawings directly in the landscape and gardens. He has also made a series of large scale studio oil paintings, developing themes and subjects from the work done on site. The first two of these larger works were displayed at Chatsworth on the Paxton Conservative Wall in the garden last autumn.

In the introduction to the exhibition catalogue, The Duke of Devonshire writes; ‘I am delighted that a thoughtful and contemporary artist such as Lewis Noble should have wanted to devote a whole year of his working life to painting in and around the Estate. His work will add a new layer to the impressions of Chatsworth that have built up over 400 years, and which themselves shape the way the place is imagined.‘