Our artists
Meet the artists whose approaches to light, material and memory shape the Noonaway collection.
Quiet interiors, plant forms and changing light
Elise Marlowe grew up on England’s south coast and began her career in stage and spatial design. Her paintings turn quiet rooms, studio objects and changing daylight into restrained compositions where muted color and open space carry equal weight.
“I paint what remains after the light has moved on.”
Coastal terrain, weather and abstract rhythm
Owen Mercer trained as an architectural model maker before moving to the north Cornish coast. His work translates rock, tide and shifting weather into layered surfaces, combining measured structure with the physical marks of scraping and rebuilding.
“A landscape begins as rhythm before it becomes a place.”
Memory, domestic objects and Mediterranean color
Clara Varenne began in textile conservation, where she developed an interest in worn surfaces, faded color and the history held by everyday materials. Her paintings draw on family photographs, collected ceramics and the warm, open light of southern France.
“Color speaks most clearly when there is room around it.”
Architecture, rural paths and geometric form
With a background in printmaking and furniture restoration, Adrian Cole approaches painting through structure and proportion. His compositions reduce buildings, roads and fields to calm arrangements of weight, edge and muted color.
“Order gives chance somewhere to land.”
Portrait fragments, memory and tonal abstraction
Raised between France and Britain, Lucien Ward first worked in editorial photography before turning to painting. He builds and erases images in repeated layers, allowing faces and remembered spaces to surface gradually from deep, restrained color.
“The strongest part of a face is often the part that resists explanation.”
