Kyle Noble

Kyle’s practice has a strong drawn element mixing automatic drawing, Chinese landscape aesthetics and layers of varnish. Over the last ten years Noble has devoted his practice to the description of an imaginary ancient culture called 'The Meiklians', who built the stone circles around his home in Aberdeenshire. Through drawing, painting and writing he describes this fictional territory of mind, calling the collective body of work 'The Meiklian Project'.

His works offer an alternative meditation on the Scottish landscape, influenced by the ancient landscape of Aberdeenshire, a passion for rewilding the Scottish wilderness and the Chinese Landscape Painting traditions he saw whilst living in Taiwan and Hong Kong.

In his paintings Noble experiments with medium and mark making in an effort to describe the strong impressions that his research and experiences have made upon him, endless archaic forests, hallucinatory visions of starlit skies, pine studded knolls, recumbent stone circles, supernatural shamanism and views of the distant mountain, Bennachie.