Noelle Stoffel
Noelle Stoffel may have set a new standard for an early career start, since she accompanied her father to art classes at age five. Later in childhood she would be matched with artist Joyce Winter in Wisconsin, and for over thirteen years would spend six hours or more most Saturdays in the Winter studio working with paint, clay, and charcoal, experimenting with nearly every medium and tool imaginable. “I learned there that art was everywhere, in every aspect of life,” Noelle recalls.
“In the years ahead when I traveled with my family, observed architecture and nature, and reflected on events, I’d find myself studying surfaces, light play and the texture of everyday objects. And these mixed with the feelings evoked by the relationships in my life. I turned naturally to the canvas to interpret all these shifting views and emotions.”
Study at a private high school for the arts only increased her passion, and helped direct her to the Kansas City Art Institute for training. After art school, she fulfilled a childhood dream of designing for Hallmark, and then shifted to focus on her own paintings for galleries, exhibitions and commissions. She paints mostly expressionist and abstract works, some textural with acrylic paint and mixed media. For her, expressionism is the visual interpretation of emotions: the result of movement, gestures, colors playing over and against each other, framed by the communication of an inner vision. “It’s what flows from me to the canvas,” she explains, “when I open myself up and let go.” Her work can be found in galleries and collections throughout the United States, as well as Mexico and the Caribbean.
Permanent Collections: American Century’s Global headquarters in New York and American Century Kansas CityThe Department of Homeland Security UtahCentral Piedmont Surgery Center North CarolinaMiami Medical Center Miami, FloridaHouston Physicians Group Houston, TexasSummit Medical Center Casper, WyomingBaird Financial in Milwaukee, WisconsinHeartland Surgery Center NebraskaBlue Cross Blue Shield Corporate office Kansas CityBlack and Veatch Kansas CityColdwell Banker Kansas CityBank Midwest Kansas CitySpaces Magazine Kansas CityShawnee Mission hospital Overland Park, KansasSt. Luke’s Hospital (s) Kansas CityUvanta Kansas CitySulgrave Regency Kansas City
Publications: Leawood Lifestyle magazine (s)Johnson County LifestyleWhispering Prairie Press, KC Voices Magazine (s)( additionally, art curator for KC Voices Magazine 2017)Verge MagazineAmerican Art CollectorFeatured as the “Not So Starving Artist” in Red Dot Blog by Xanadu Gallery Kansas City.
