There is a place that I return to each year, high up in the mountains of the Cederberg, a place where, in the silence of the dawn I witness the hidden lives of genets and porcupines, and many others that tell their stories in the soft African sands. It is a place of sacred geometry, where the painted caves of the ancient San are in perfect alignment with the geology, where the whisper of the grasses fill the vast spaces of the endless skies as I walk upon the land, and with time I come to remember the deeper knowing that this land gives me, an inner sense of connection, of belonging…
(Excerpt from one of Noel’s Blog narratives)
In May 2011 Noel began creating fifty-two wildlife paintings and sculptures which he will be exhibiting in mid-2012. As part of this initiative he has launched a weekly Blog called 52 Artworks - A Year in Nature, whereby he invites you to join him on this creative journey, to see the artworks that are produced each week along with thoughts around each work, and to share his incredible encounters with nature as the year unfolds.
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