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Karen Noles
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Painting out of her home studio located on the edge of the Flathead
Indian Reservation in Montana, overlooking the southern end of the
Flathead Lake, Noles has access to more than 30,000 acres of land
both for recreation and artistic backdrop. Noles rates horseback
riding as her number one recreational activity.
Noles’ oil paintings feature the domestic life of the 1800’s Native
American , especially the early reservation time period. For accuracy’s
sake and in order to convey realism, Noles spends hours researching each
painting, collecting reference and museum books on early Native American
life and visiting museums to photograph their exhibits. She then incorporates the
realism of her research with her inner images. One of the aspects Noles enjoys
most about painting this time period is the depiction of the bead and quill
work for which the Native Americans are so well known. I find that not only
can I try to portray a situation of that time, but I can also give honor to
their works of art, says Noles.
Another detail which adds realism to Noles’ work is her effort to use
Native American models and wild animals in the photo shoots for her
paintings. The children that I’m working with now I’ve been working with
for a few years; the parents know and trust me. Children have such a
wonderful imagination and do such spontaneous things - some great paintings
come out of it all.
She often relies on a friend who rehabilitates injured or abandoned
animals, who will bring over a fawn, fox pups, young lynx or perhaps
a bobcat who are tame enough to be used in a photo shoot with her child
models. Tepee Tender is a warm-hearted example.
Her Oil painting Tepee Tender is featured in Art of the American West,
c 1999 by Rockport Publishing.
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