Noelle Stoffel may have set a new standard for an early career start, since she accompanied her father to art classes at age five. Later in childhood she would be matched with artist Joyce
Winter in Wisconsin, and for over thirteen years would spend six hours or more most Saturdays in the Winter studio working with paint, clay, and charcoal, experimenting with nearly every medium and tool imaginable. “I learned there that art was everywhere, in every aspect of life,” Noelle recalls. “In the years ahead when I traveled with my family, observed architecture and nature, and reflected on events, I’d find myself studying surfaces, light play and the texture of everyday objects. And these mixed with the feelings evoked by the relationships in my life. I turned naturally to the canvas to interpret all these shifting views and emotions.” Study at a private high school for the arts only increased her passion, and helped direct her to the Kansas City Art Institute for training. After art school, she fulfilled a childhood dream of designing for Hallmark, and then shifted to focus on her own paintings for galleries, exhibitions and commissions. She paints mostly expressionist and abstract works, some textural with acrylic paint and mixed media. For her, expressionism is the visual interpretation of emotions: the result of movement, gestures, colors playing over and against each other, framed by the communication of an inner vision. “It’s what flows from me to the canvas,” she explains, “when I open myself up and let go.”

Her work can be found in galleries and collections throughout the United States, as well as Mexico and the Caribbean.

Permanent Collections:

American Century's Global headquarters in New York and American Century Kansas City

The Department of Homeland Security  Utah

Central Piedmont Surgery Center  North Carolina

Miami Medical Center  Miami, Florida

Houston Physicians Group Houston, Texas

Summit Medical Center Casper, Wyoming

Baird Financial in Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Heartland Surgery Center Nebraska

Blue Cross Blue Shield Corporate office Kansas City

Black and Veatch Kansas City

Coldwell Banker Kansas City

Bank Midwest Kansas City

Spaces Magazine Kansas City

Shawnee Mission hospital Overland Park, Kansas

St. Luke's Hospital (s) Kansas City

Uvanta Kansas City

Sulgrave Regency Kansas City

Publications:
Leawood Lifestyle magazine (s)

Johnson County Lifestyle

Whispering Prairie Press, KC Voices Magazine (s)

(additionally, art curator for KC Voices Magazine 2017)

Verge Magazine

American Art Collector

Featured as the "Not So Starving Artist" in Red Dot Blog by Xanadu Gallery

Kansas City Star