Christopher Noxon Painter
I am an illustrator-turned-landscape painter inspired by the spirit, light, landforms and people of the Ojai Valley.
Spirit of Place – that’s the best way to describe what I try to convey, the calm/energized/teary-eyed feeling you get here.
I started painting in midlife, having settled here after raising kids and writing books in LA, including “Good Trouble: Lessons from the Civil Rights Playbook,” “Plus One,” “Rejevenile: Kickball Cartoons Cupcakes and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up,” and “Can We Talk About Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused and Conflicted” (illustrator).
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Spirit of place: by Christopher Noxon
I paint landscapes mostly, pictures of mountains and valleys, rocks and trees and big drippy skies. I use a lot of color – I’m inspired by African textiles and Hockney landscapes and Huichol yarn paintings and Colorform toy sets. All of which is a big surprise to me – I never meant to be a colorful landscape painter.
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Christopher Noxon: Transfixed and and Grateful
There’s something magic about seeing artwork in the place where it’s created – it’s like...
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