Noel Wood

Noel Wood
Born	1912 Strathalbyn, South Australia, Australia
Died	2001
Residence	Bedarra Island
Nationality	Australian
Occupation	Painter
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Weld Skipper
Children	Virginia Maray Ann Oenone

Noel Herbert Wood (1 February 1912 - 10 November 2001) was an Australian painter.

Noel Herbert Wood was born in 1912 in Strathalbyn, South Australia, a son of Rev. T(om) Percy Wood (died 1957) and his wife Fannie née Newbury (died 1969). He was a brother of Rex Wood (1909–1970), also a noted artist. He attended art school in Adelaide where his tutor was the painter, Marie Tuck.

For nearly sixty years, Noel Wood lived on Bedarra Island where he painted and established food gardens, living in his home on Doorila Bay, calling it the "House of Singing Bamboo", sadly today it does not exist after Cyclone Yasi. In 1947/8, he painted in Ireland, Britain and Europe, before returning to Bedarra. In the 1950s he spent some time in United States.

He had stopped painting by the 1970s. Noel Wood’s work is represented in public collections throughout Australia and in many private collections in Australia, U.K. and U.S.A.

He married Eleanor Weld Skipper, whom he met at art school, and fathered two daughters, Virginia Maray and Ann Oenone.

He died in 2001.

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