Local artist Noyes Capehart featured
on UNC-TV June 5
By Jeff Eason
Artist Noyes Capehart Long loves the older
gothic architecture of the South, especially if he can capture
it in all its glorious disrepair and decay. Capehart’s
paintings of old abandoned homes were the centerpiece of
his 2006 coffee table book The Private Diaries of Noyes
Capehart.
Noyes Capehart Long
at home. Photo
by Jeff Eason |
One of Capehart’s
finished paintings of the house near Todd. |
Now one particular house that Capehart has
painted on numerous occasions will be featured, along with
the artist, on the UNC-TV program Our State.
The program will air on Charter Cable channel 13 on Thursday,
June 5th at 8 p.m.
“A film crew was here in Boone for three days,”
explained Capehart. “They were filming what will be
a brief segment on my art to on the Our State program and
DVD. In March 2007 Our State magazine did a really nice
article on my work. It was just a little bit after my book
came out.”
Capehart stated that each year the editors of Our State
go back through the magazine’s articles and select
eight or ten features for the television program. After
calling Capehart and getting his approval, UNC-TV sent a
film crew to the High Country in January to capture the
artist at work. The crew spent one day in Todd with Capehart
looking at an old abandoned house that he likes to paint,
one day filming an interview portion, and one day filming
Capehart at work in his studio.
From that footage, the producers of Our State created a
ten-minute segment for UNC-TV. The segment is titled “An
Artist’s Reflections.”
The mysterious house in question that Capehart has captured
on canvas is just off of Hwy 194, approximately 2/3 of the
way to Todd from Boone. Capehart is currently in the process
of creating giclee prints of that and other paintings from
the area that will go on sale at the Todd General Store
this summer. Capehart will make an appearance at the Todd
General Store’s back porch area on July 19th to meet
with the public and introduce the new line of prints. Capehart
will also have them for sale at the new Purveyors of Art
Materials in Foscoe this summer.
This year is a momentous one for Capehart as it marks the
50th anniversary of his first art exhibit in 1958. Through
the years his work has been on exhibit at the Whitney Museum
of American Art, the Smithsonian Museum, the Mint Museum,
the North Carolina Museum of Art and other venues.
Some of the paintings that made up his Private Diaries book
were the subject of a special exhibit at the Turchin Center
for the Visual Arts in Boone last summer.
“The Diary pictures have not only allowed me to give
full vent to my imagination and creativity, but through
these pictures I’ve been able to address and resolve
many of the more troublesome life issues that have come
my way,” said Capehart. “I discovered a long time
ago that art can be a powerful healer. If I’ve learned
anything from making pictures and writing stories, it’s
the simple realization that art can carry one through some
of the darkest hours.
“When we project our most private thoughts and feelings
to the surface of a canvas, or to the pages of a story,
we imbue the work with reality.”
Capehart began teaching art at Appalachian State University
in 1969 and taught painting and art composition there for
37 before retiring two years ago.
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