About Lendon

Lendon Hamilton Noe is a native of Jackson, Tennessee, where she was a professor of art at Lambuth University for 28 years. She maintains a studio and gallery at DCA/DCPR in Jackson. She graduated from Rollins College in Florida, earning the BA in Art and English Literature. She studied in Denver at the Rocky Mountain School of Art and then returned to Tennessee and completed an MS in Art Education at UT Knoxville. She completed her MFA in Painting and Mixed Media at Vermont College. Her work includes oil painting, original prints, mixed media, and installation. Her primary media are oil and graphite drawing pencil. For the last 15 years, her work has been focused on natural history. Her Tennessee natural history installation won a place in the Nashville Airport Flying Solo exhibition. She enjoys creating site specific thematic shows that may include drawings, paintings, collage, image transfer and assemblage. Past shows have included For Privilege of Sod and Sun, artwork inspired by the nature images in the life and work of Emily Dickinson, and more recently the Sonnets to Orpheus. Her show, Inspired by the Forest Unseen opened at the Tennessee Arts Commission Gallery in Nashville in November of 2015. Her most recent show, Grand Simplicities: Inspired by Eudora Welty, has opened at the Ned in Jackson, TN and will be up until October of 2018.

Look for Lendon's online workshops with Carla Sonheim!