About

Noah Xaver Pfister is a contemporary painter based in Australia whose work explores the tension between order and chaos within complex natural systems.

Built through instinctive accumulation, Pfister’s paintings develop through dense layers of colour, mark, and form until coherent structures emerge from apparent disorder. Influenced by fractal patterns found in nature, the works operate across multiple visual scales—encouraging the viewer to shift between microscopic detail and expansive, cosmic fields.

Rather than pursuing symmetry or reduction, Pfister embraces irregularity, variation, and density as fundamental aesthetic principles. Archetypal forms—faces, organisms, and ambiguous figures—surface and dissolve throughout the compositions, acting as perceptual anchors within overwhelming complexity. The paintings reward sustained attention, revealing internal rhythms that resist immediate resolution. Layers accumulate through repetition, fragmentation, and rhythmic variation, generating surfaces that echo phenomena found in clouds, geological formations, neural networks, and organic growth systems. What first appears chaotic gradually resolves into structure, only to destabilise again under closer inspection.

Pfister is an award winning artist whose work has been recognised in international competitions and exhibitions. His paintings are held in private collections across Australia, the United States, Canada, Germany, Malaysia, and Scotland.