What themes run throughout your work? The passing of time, instinct, light and darkness...
How do you hope your work will affect its audience? I hope the viewer get inspired to interpret the meaning of the painting.
What sounds influence your work? Ethnic music form around the globe.
What makes you decide to create your work? The need to re-interpret what I see around and inside myself.
Where do your talents lie? In transforming ideas and feelings into something else, like a painting for example.
What successes have you had so far? I have exhibited my work in London, India, Spain and Japan, having some collectors from around the globe.
What was the first creative thing that you ever did? I curated a fashion show in Spain, with some music performances.
Has anyone taught you how to use your talent better? Yes, in Chelsea School of Art&Design.
What makes you creative? The need for understanding who we are and how we relate to everything and everyone around us.
How did you get started? From early age, I always re-invented my toys and find new ways to play with my friends.
What inspires you? Everything around me.
Who inspires you? Everyone around me.
What are you trying to achieve? To be happy and enjoy life for what it is, an amazing thing.
Do you collaborate? Yes, is always good to take part in projects with other members of the creative community. You will always learn something new and ideas get bigger.
Ignoring money and all of life’s woes, what would you want to be? An artist, always doing something creative.
Accepting the need for money and all of life’s woes, what do you want to be? An artist.
What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen / heard / experienced? Too many to mention here, some of them, seen The La Guarda, theater group, that interact with the audience, full of passion and energy. Visited India in many times, wonderful place to be inspired by the land and the people.
What do you consider to be the most important thing in life? Friendship and the love we share with each other.
Who/what is your nemesis and why? Life itself, because there is no enough time in one lifetime to enjoy everything that life has to offer, that is why I believe in reincarnation, so we have many opportunities to come back.
Artist Statement:
about the artist
Born in La Linea De La Concepcion, Cadiz, Spain. Having studied in Spain, Manuel Noguera moved to London in 1994 to further his work and went on to study at both the London Institute and Chelsea School of Art & Design. With a strong colour sense of
Velazquez, the Spanish Artist Noguera brings the artistic heritage of his native country into his paintings.
He has been influenced heavily by the movement and the theatricality of flamenco dancing.
Noguera clearly defines his emotions with his earthly tones and brush strokes, tapping into the dark spaces of the subconscious.
The most inaccessible feelings come into being, at times partly hidden, just beneath the surface, radiating with intriguing possibilities.
Noguera finds a unique way to enter this visual world, where colours blend, light and darkness confront one another, surface and depth work
together to create spectacular works of art that are open to almost infinite number of interpretations.
Not surprisingly, intuition plays a large part in both the creating process and the end result of Noguera's work, for one cannot view it without being aware of the freedom of expression, random movements and the sense of liberation living in these
paintings.
The passionate, bold brush strokes, and the unique usage of materials and canvases, give birth to rich and colourful imagery with unexpected
associations for the whole spectrum of life: doubts and perhaps even fears, but also hopes.
artist's philosophy
I let intuition be part of the creative process, in this way there is a freedom of expression, creating random movements which allows my most inaccessible emotions to come into being, tapping into a chaotic space where old memories are kept, allowing
me to create the brush strokes which define these emotions.
When I am creating the painting there is a sense of liberation, there are no preconceived ideasof what the final image should look like, this is the freedom that I am interested in, because the possibilities are boundless.
When the first layers of paint are applied, my conscious mind find ways to interpret the evolution of the painting.
Forms, colours and textures are the tools used to enlighten the meaning of the artwork.
I create windows to the world of the artist, creating that necessary space in which the viewer gets access to the illusions and challenges of the human experiences.
I am interested in the unexpected associations, which comes with doubts, anguish and confusion, but also illumination and the great pleasure of fulfillment.
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