What is particularly interesting about
the visual artist Noa Ain is the fact that she is also a consummate musician
and composer, with a history of distinguished musical accomplishments that
include both pop culture as well as operas, film scores and play writing. The
result in her painting is a translation of her powerful lyrical musical
understanding into a formal painterly framework that morphs tone into color and
meter into shape. Furthermore these formal painterly skills relate to all sorts
of life forms, and like her music, are emblems of her humane and caring spirit.

The results, again as in her music, are
about how she savors life and we can access it directly, without the
intervention of a tortured crucial exegesis. Her recent paintings of plant
forms, of leaves wet with rain and lyrically flowing with color that is both
naturalistic yet invented, have a visual pleasure that almost insinuates a
musical score. The scale of these paintings are large without overburdening the
scale of the subject matter. If there is an associative art lurking in her
work, -all art piggybacks prior art- it is in the large flower forms of Georgia
O'Keefe, but here the similarities end abruptly. Noa Ain's works are pliant
melodies of color and form that are elegies to nature rather than the graphic,
iconic constructors found in O'Keefe.

The paintings by Noa Ain fall within the
canon of modernist aesthetics by hewing a delicate balance between the observed
form and the artist's visual recreation of it in two dimensional terms. The
flat patter making application of subtle, yet vibrantly resonating color,
attest to her music based abstract temperament; the pictures are about the
world around us.