Noel Alexander Harkness was born 6th. December 1930. Noel died 14 January 2000.
He attended Inchmarlow and Brackenber House Prep. School, and on to Campbell College. He was evacuated to The Northern Counties Hotel, Portrush during the second world war. Where he loved to sketch and draw. His father was an architect and Noel had studied his work and began sketching from an early age.
He graduated from Trinity College Dublin where he was the artist in residence. He travelled widely after graduation and joined the Lyons Tea Company where he became a manager in London. He began exhibition of his art work in Soho and Whitehall galleries while in London.
In the late sixties he returned to Belfast and joined a local Estate Agency and moved on to set up his own Estate Agency firm on the Lisburn Road, Belfast.
The influences of Picasso and Paul Gauguin are apparent in his early work and these are enhanced by his own modernist innovations. He left an extensive body of work, a huge amount of which has recently been discovered in the attic of his Wife’s home after her death. The works are currently being catalogued and recorded for future exhibition.
Noel Alexander Harkness was born 6th. December 1930. Noel died 14 January 2000.
He attended Inchmarlow and Brackenber House Prep. School, and on to Campbell College. He was evacuated to The Northern Counties Hotel, Portrush during the second world war. Where he loved to sketch and draw. His father was an architect and Noel had studied his work and began sketching from an early age.
He graduated from Trinity College Dublin where he was the artist in residence. He travelled widely after graduation and joined the Lyons Tea Company where he became a manager in London. He began exhibition of his art work in Soho and Whitehall galleries while in London.
In the late sixties he returned to Belfast and joined a local Estate Agency and moved on to set up his own Estate Agency firm on the Lisburn Road, Belfast.
The influences of Picasso and Paul Gauguin are apparent in his early work and these are enhanced by his own modernist innovations. He left an extensive body of work, a huge amount of which has recently been discovered in the attic of his Wife’s home after her death. The works are currently being catalogued and recorded for future exhibition.
Noel Harkness Belfast Artist 1930-2000. I
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