UPWARD's Quarterly Winter 2022-2023

INTERVIEW
NOELLE
O'HANLON:
I want my
paintings to
sing, to feel alive
and to express
the feelings that
inspired them
UQ: Tell a little bit about how you
first got into creating art.
I always loved looking at paintings,
but only started painting myself when
I got a new job where I knew nobody
and was very demanding
intellectually and emotionally. I had
no artistic talent or ambition which
allowed me, maybe for the first time
in my life, to just do something that
I didn’t have to be good at and really
enjoyed. It was much later in life that
I realized that it was what I wanted
to do more than anything else.
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