Noel Wood
Noel Wood | |
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Born |
1912 Strathalbyn, South Australia, Australia |
Died | 2001 |
Residence | Bedarra Island |
Nationality | Australian |
Occupation | Painter |
Spouse(s) | Eleanor Weld Skipper |
Children |
Virginia Maray Ann Oenone |
Noel Herbert Wood (1 February 1912 - 10 November 2001) was an Australian painter.
Biography
Early life
Noel Herbert Wood was born in 1912 in Strathalbyn, South Australia, a son of Rev. T(om) Percy Wood (died 1957) and his wife Fannie née Newbury (died 1969). He was a brother of Rex Wood (1909–1970), also a noted artist. He attended art school in Adelaide where his tutor was the painter, Marie Tuck.
Career
For nearly sixty years, Noel Wood lived on Bedarra Island where he painted and established food gardens, living in his home on Doorila Bay, calling it the "House of Singing Bamboo",[1] sadly today it does not exist after Cyclone Yasi. In 1947/8, he painted in Ireland, Britain and Europe, before returning to Bedarra. In the 1950s he spent some time in United States.[2]
He had stopped painting by the 1970s. Noel Wood’s work is represented in public collections throughout Australia and in many private collections in Australia, U.K. and U.S.A.[2]
Personal life
He married Eleanor Weld Skipper, whom he met at art school, and fathered two daughters, Virginia Maray and Ann Oenone.[2]
Death
He died in 2001.
References
- ↑ Most likely a reference to the Guy Mitchell - Rosemary Clooney hit song of 1961
- 1 2 3 Wilson, Gavin "Escape Artists: Modernists in the Tropics" Cairns Regional Gallery, Queensland 4870, Australia 1998 ISBN 0-9586858-2-7.
Further reading
- "A Big Country" Stories of Australia and its people from the ABC TV series by Jim Downes. Pub. Angus and Robertson 1988. ISBN 0-207-15896-7. See "No Place For a Hermit" pp. 105–111.
- "The Island and the Painter" ABC TV film. Producer Rob Stewart 1987. Source: Australian Broadcasting Commission, Film Database.
- "International Islands Magazine" Vol.3/No.5, November/December 1983. See "ON THE ROAD TO MEHETIA" PART 2. by Michael Fessier.
- "The New Yorker" 26 May 1956. The Talk of the Town (S. McCarten; Brendan Gill; Whitney Balliett) "Bach and Bananas" Page 25.
- "Howard Hinton, Patron of Art", Angus & Robertson, Halstead Press, Sydney N.S.W. Australia. 1951.
- "Dictionary of Australian Artists". http://www.daao.org.au/main/read/7224