About

Stephanie is an award winning, internationally collected artist. Her paintings have been used in national media campaigns and reside in homes and businesses across the world. Her works have been selected for inclusion in the Royal Hibernian, Royal Ulster and Royal Scottish academy exhibitions several years in a row and has exhibited two paintings at the Royal Academy of Arts in London as part of their summer exhibition. Most recently, she collaborated with Patrick Colhoun for their ‘Blunting’ exhibition.

Artist’s Bio.

Stephanie Noble was born in Cardiff and moved to Belfast Northern Ireland in 2013. Stephanie is a visual artist who chooses to work primarily with oil paint and her current practice hones her skills in making landscape paintings. Stephanie is a member of the Creative Exchange artist studio group that operates out of Portview Trade centre in Belfast.

Artist’s statement.

Stephanie’s practice explores the evolving relationship between landscape and contemporary life, examining how our understanding of place is shaped by increasingly mediated ways of seeing.

Stephanie is drawn to landscapes that exist outside traditional ideas of beauty — overlooked spaces, quiet edges, and environments altered by human presence. Through painting, she considers how these locations continue to hold emotional and psychological significance within a culture dominated by screens, speed, and virtual experience. These environments reveal the traces of our existence and embody the ways in which human activity alters, disrupts and redefines the land, often in subtle and cumulative ways. Stephanie’s interest lies in how our presence inevitability forces landscapes to change, leaving visible and invisible marks that become part of their identity. Rather than presenting nature as separate from humanity, her paintings consider landscapes as living records of occupation, intervention and adaptation.

Her work embraces the tension between the natural world and digital existence, using the tactile, physical qualities of oil paint to slow down observation and reconnect with environments that might otherwise go unnoticed. By focusing on landscapes that are often disregarded or visually unremarkable, Stephanie invites viewers to reconsider what we value in the spaces around us and how our relationship to place continues to shift in an increasingly digital age.