I am Noodles, a UK-based visual artist whose practice explores the emotional undercurrents of the human experience through intricate ink drawings and expressive mixed media paintings. Working predominantly in black and white, my ink works are abstract, densely detailed, and intuitively created — each one beginning with a mood, a feeling, or even closed eyes. What emerges are complex, dreamlike compositions that blur the boundaries between abstraction and subconscious figuration.

 

My paintings, often rendered in acrylics and oil pastels, are deeply emotive and instinctively led. Layered with texture and tone, these pieces capture what words cannot — becoming visual timestamps of emotional states.

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Over the past few years, I’ve been lucky to share my work in a number of spaces.

 

My work has been exhibited as part of the Hereford Art Trail and featured in an NHS mental health awareness campaign in 2021 with Drowning in a Sea of Chaos. My piece Which Way was selected as a promotional poster for the Hereford & Worcester Film Festival (2022), and five of my ink works were displayed in the Royal Derby Hospital’s Air Arts Exhibition, Curiosity, for six months in 2022.

 

In 2024, I collaborated with NoAgendaPhotography on the visceral multimedia project War of the Heart, creating the costume, make-up and SFX - : a hand-crafted latex heart, and wounds, one with an embedded cleaver — a raw, confrontational piece not for the faint-hearted. The result was a bold visual exploration of emotional trauma, and a thrilling creative challenge that pushed our boundaries.

 

Currently, I am working on 82 Blue Dogs and a Cat, a playful and personal homage to David Hockney’s 82 Portraits and a Still Life.

 

Balancing intensity with ambiguity, I invite viewers to slow down, look closely, and feel deeply — because in my world, nothing is ever quite as it seems and that is how I like it.

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