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My current work involves the use of a 1917 photo album given to me by my 100 year old Norwegian grandmother..... the snapshots she took almost 100 years ago are still clear and represent her life in much different times.    In effect, this work is created with the help of my deceased relative who had a really good photographic eye although I never saw any of her work other than these old albums she gave me.

Part photographic, part digital composites, digital manipulation and use of rice paper and specially prepared canvas I work with many and changing sources of materials and images.  I sometimes combine several elements from different photos to make up a new image.  Sometimes parts of a photo are reduced or removed, stretched or shrunk, redifined by surface treatments, to create a new work from a very old photo.  My work has evolved over time and continues to change as my grasp of the digital possibilites  available to me grows. 
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Review of Artist's Work:
Susan Brown Stoddard Phd. Prof. University of Maine: ..."Petrea Noyes' painting with its delicate monochromatic palette and shadings and its merging of media and technique, creates a sense of mystery.  The subtle layering creates depth while the paleness of the colors floats the figures to the surface."