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Maxine Noel

Maxine Noel

Cultural Background: Santee Oglala Sioux, Manitoba

Maxine was born in Manitoba of Santee Oglala Sioux parents. She spent her early childhood on her mother’s reserve but at the age of six she left to attend an Indian residential school. Maxine’s early career as a legal secretary was soon overshadowed by her preoccupation with painting and drawing. She took a course in advanced design where a teacher noticed Maxine’s tendency toward linear expression and encouraged her in the use of shape and line to suggest movement. She learned those lessons well, as evidenced by much of her work today. Since those early days Maxine has mastered the skills of painting and drawing plus the processes of serigraphy, etching and stone lithography. Recently she has turned her talents to the creation of editions in cast paper and limited edition bronze castings.
Maxine has received excellent response to her work and is now able to devote herself full-time to the creation of art.
Maxine Noel signs her artwork with her Sioux name IOYAN MANI, which translates as “Walk Beyond”.

Origine Culturelle: sioux Santee Oglala, Manitoba

Née au Manitoba de parents sioux Santee Oglala, Maxine Noel passe les premières année de sa vie dans la réserve de sa mère qu’elle quitte à l’âge de six ans pour aller dans une école résidentielle indienne. Elle est d’abord secrétaire juridique, mais sa carrière passe bientôt après la pienture et le dessin. C’est pendent un cours supérieur de design qu’un de ses professeurs remarqua son penchant vers l’expression linéaire et l’encouragea à rendre le mouvement au moyen des formes et des lignes. Leçon qu’elle a fort bien retenue si l’on en juge par la plupart de ses oeuvres. Maxine a, depuis, fait son chemin et est passée maître non seulement dans l’art de la peinture, du dessin, mais aussie dans la pratique de la sérigraphie, de la gravure à l’eauforte et de la lithographie sur pierre. Elle se tourne depuis peu vers la reproduction d’oeuvres en papier moulé et en bronze coulé.
Ses travaux soulèvent un très vif intérêt, ce qui lui permet de se consacrer entièrement à la création artistique.
Maxine Noel signe ses oeuvres de son nom sioux IOYAN MANI, “Celle qui va plus loin”.

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Arrival of Autumn by artist Maxine Noel
Earth Spirits by artist Maxine Noel
Summer Moon by artist Maxine Noel
The Soul Keeper by artist Maxine Noel
Life by artist Maxine Noel
Keeper of Knowledge by artist Maxine Noel
Under the Shadow of the Hawk by artist Maxine Noel
Celebration by artist Maxine Noel
Ancestral Pride by artist Maxine Noel
Autumn Dance by artist Maxine Noel
Quiet Moments by artist Maxine Noel
Ancestral Guidance by artist Maxine Noel
Family by artist Maxine Noel
Grandfather's Stories by artist Maxine Noel
The Awakening by artist Maxine Noel
Morning’s Daughter by artist Maxine Noel
Butterflies by artist Maxine Noel
Natures Love Song by artist Maxine Noel
My Sister Myself by artist Maxine Noel
Mother Of The Sea by artist Maxine Noel
Keeper of Knowledge by artist Maxine Noel
Hope by artist Maxine Noel
Grandfather's Stories by artist Maxine Noel
Earth's Song by artist Maxine Noel
Ancient Messages by artist Maxine Noel
A New Beginning by artist Maxine Noel
A Mother's Love by artist Maxine Noel
Wolf Guardian by artist Maxine Noel