About

Noelle Miller is a mixed media artist living and working in Northern Colorado. After graduating from CSU with a BFA in Drawing she moved to Asheville, North Carolina to begin her career as a working artist. Now back in Colorado, she bridges the chapters of her life through an accumulated language of colors and marks learned during these times. Noelle’s work consists of public art projects, including murals and 3-dimensional installations, fine art paintings, label artwork and both corporate and private commissions.

It starts with water, pools strategically placed…

I grew up in a family of artists. Being involved in the arts was always normal in my house; it was something almost everyone used as a healthy outlet. When I was a teenager, I really began to understand that connection. I realized that making art was not just about what I was making, but how therapeutic the act of creating can be. Throughout the following years I always turned to creating, it became a completely ingrained part of me that continues to ground me through the dark and guide me in the light. 

I use processes that are largely uncontrollable combined with meticulously structured elements. Large washes of color are layered beneath measured and pre-drawn patterns, entwined with representational imagery inspired by daily moments with my children. All of the pattern work is freehand painted, as a nod to the human element, with sketch marks left revealed as a metaphor for control. Nothing can ever be perfect, no matter how hard I try. I hope the viewer feels the symbiotic relationship of control vs the uncontrollable and that they are grounded in the present moment while examining the layers and following the lines through each artwork. 

Noelle’s abstract works transport viewers into ecosystems built up through complex layers, bold colors and varied textures.

As environments are layered, blossoming and emotional, so are the marks and textures she makes while creating these worlds. The challenge is to never be literal but to capture the essence and emotion of what is trying to be uncovered.