Body Blow Artwork - Limited Edition of 1

My name is Alex Noble and I'm Artist working out of Tokyo Japan. Since leaving my hometown Perth, Western Australia in 2000, I have lived and travelled all throughout Asia. I first began painting in Singapore where I worked as an Advertising Art Director. Although trained as a Graphic Designer, my painting was completely autodidactic and it has been a great journey of self-discovery and experimentation for me ever since. Currently my interest with painting and drawing is a personal reaction to today's digital age of mass production, where everything is perfect and exact and nothing is unique anymore. I like the idea of making an imperfect mark. I like my art to be "the one-off, never to be repeated" type of art. Being a commercial Artist has taught me many different creative lessons about time, quality and the expectations of others. So I'm no brute caveman from the 20th century who rejects modern technology. Rather, digital tools have an important place in my work process, and in fact, many digital tricks go into my work before I even touch brush to canvas. However, for the end result, I strive to produce a man-made and man-crafted work of art, for that has greater individual value to people compared to something just churned out from a machine. Thanks to my frequent travels I have met many people, whom over time, have become the subject matters for my work. Some of them I know personally and others I have just observed casually - to me it is not important. I'm not interested in reproducing them realistically. I prefer to focus on a individual part of them, be it a physical feature or a behavioral trait, and then work from that as a starting point for my imagination to fill in the rest. Capturing the innate essence of a person is more important for art, as I believe it is something a camera cannot do. My art compresses form, motion and personality into one piece of art to create a brand new personality. Alex Noble 2011