My painting Sardines was accepted into the 26th Annual Frances N. Roddy Exhibition and will be on view through October 19th at Concord Art in Concord MA. Come see the show! It includes over 100 artists, in all media, and was juried by Sarah Montross, Chief Curator & Museum Director at deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum.

Reception:
Thursday, September 11 at 5:30pm

On View:
September 11 – October 19, 2025
Concord Center for the Visual Arts
37 Lexington Road, Concord, MA
Hours:
Tues – Sat: 10am – 4:30pm
Sun: 12pm – 4pm

Sardines, 30” x 30” x 1.5” Mixed Media on Canvas

My Exhibition of paintings and prints Finding My Lines will be at Evie Salon starting in March and running through the end of May 2024. The reception will be held March 16th, come enjoy art, nibbles and beverages!

To celebrate I have opened my online shop with seven monotypes that will only be available here online.

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Finding My Lines

Paintings by Noel Danforth
March — May 2024

RECEPTION
Saturday, March 16th
6:30pm–8:30pm

Evie Salon Studio
57 Holland Street
Davis Square, Somerville, MA

Please come enjoy art, nibbles and beverages.

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Finding My Lines—Paintings by Noel Danforth

The secret of seeing is to sail on solar wind. Hone and spread your spirit till you yourself are a sail, whetted, translucent, broadside to the merest puff . — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Artist Statement

I paint abstracts because I find them beguiling. I use the word liminal to describe the space in which I work because it is an unformed in-between place that contains possibility and allows for not knowing. There is a flow, and there is also a conversation.

Working with curiosity and embodied knowledge, painting is my conversation with the canvas. Putting myself broadside to receptivity, I work with my susceptibility to color and form. And like a conversation with a friend, the conversation grows deeper and richer as it develops.

The viewer also holds a conversation with the painting. Connection happens, or it doesn’t, but an ultimate joy in painting is when a viewer finds resonance with your work.

Paintings are totems of conversation. Good paintings are beautiful because they connect us—wordlessly.