Noel Wood

Noel Herbert Wood (1 February 1912 - 10 November 2001) was an Australian painter.

Biography

Early life

Noel Herbert Wood was born in 1912 in Strathalbyn, South Australia, a son of Rev. T(om) Percy Wood (died 1957) and his wife Fannie née Newbury (died 1969). He was a brother of Rex Wood (1909–1970), also a noted artist. He attended art school in Adelaide where his tutor was the painter, Marie Tuck.

Career

For nearly sixty years, Noel Wood lived on Bedarra Island where he painted and established food gardens, living in his home on Doorila Bay, calling it the "House of Singing Bamboo", sadly today it does not exist after Cyclone Yasi. In 1947/8, he painted in Ireland, Britain and Europe, before returning to Bedarra. In the 1950s he spent some time in United States.

He had stopped painting by the 1970s. Noel Wood’s work is represented in public collections throughout Australia and in many private collections in Australia, U.K. and U.S.A.

Personal life

He married Eleanor Weld Skipper, whom he met at art school, and fathered two daughters, Virginia Maray and Ann Oenone.

Death

He died in 2001.