Elinor Noteboom Art Exhibition

Painting and prints by Orange City artist Elinor Noteboom will be on display Oct. 2–30 in Northwestern College’s Te Paske Gallery. Entitled “Prolonged Tranquility,” the exhibition features images that compare and contrast Iowa fields with the Zen gardens of Buddhist monks.

Inspiration for the series came in 1984 during a trip with other Iowa artists to the Des Moines sister city of Kofu, Japan. While visiting gardens in the city of Kyoto, Noteboom was impressed with the careful arrangement of boulders, plants and raked pebbles designed to encourage meditation and a sense of tranquility. Returning home, she recognized those same patterns in the landscape of northwest Iowa and began to paint them using a minimalist style—experimenting with color, lines, shapes and symmetry.

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