Douglas Newton
Douglas Newton · Source: New York Artists Circle · Rights retained by the original rights holders
- Medium
- Oil Paint
- Based in
- Fort Greene, Brooklyn
- Practice
- Painting
Douglas Newton is a realist painter specializing in contemporary still life. He paints in oil on canvas and works directly from life, not using photographs. Full biography
Biography
Douglas Newton is a realist painter specializing in contemporary still life. He paints in oil on canvas and works directly from life, not using photographs.
Douglas is noted for his colorful closeups of candy and their wrappers, capturing the reflections and transparency of the foils and cellophane. There is a pop-art influence in the paintings of candy.
He also paints still lives of food, toys, dolls and anything else that is visually interesting and evokes memories. His paintings have the rich beauty of oil paint, instead of the dryness of photo realism.
Douglas lives and works in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. His paintings can be seen by appointment there or on his website: douglasnewtonpaintings.com. His paintings have been in numerous one and group shows and are in many private collections.
Artist statement
My paintings are about light. Translucency, reflections, luminosity, all the ways light can transform our perceptions. Some paintings are about light around and through paper, plastic, or fabric.
I paint directly from life instead of using photographs, My compositions are very influenced by abstract painting, and use the rich, sensuous quality of oil paint to capture the beauty of what I see.
