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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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Snowflakes by artist Maxine Noel
The Potter by artist Maxine Noel
The Blessing by artist Maxine Noel
North by artist Maxine Noel
Lovers by artist Maxine Noel
Love by artist Maxine Noel
Winter Protection by artist Maxine Noel
Calm Before the Storm by artist Maxine Noel
At One With Nature by artist Maxine Noel
Dignity by artist Maxine Noel
Earth Spirit by artist Maxine Noel
The Dance by artist Maxine Noel
The Gathering Mountain by artist Maxine Noel
Woodland Spirit by artist Maxine Noel
Dawn by artist Maxine Noel
Grandmother Moon by artist Maxine Noel
In Remembrance by artist Maxine Noel
The Sisterhood by artist Maxine Noel
Winter by artist Maxine Noel
Moon Maiden by artist Maxine Noel
Working Together by artist Maxine Noel
Phoenix by artist Maxine Noel
Spring Dance by artist Maxine Noel
The Potter by artist Maxine Noel
The Sea’s Protection by artist Maxine Noel
Trinity by artist Maxine Noel
Spring Comes In by artist Maxine Noel