Saturday 4 November 2023 – 11.30 till 3.30pm, The Learning Room at the Hatton Gallery
Robert Newton Talk and painting demo
“This is a talk about my becoming an artist. I will show some early/recent work, then move onto my paints and materials. I’ll give an overview of my sketches and how I translate and develop them into larger works. Show some recent sketches from trips to North Yorkshire, the Lake District and the Outer Hebrides.”
Talk and demo:
- Start by discussing materials, paints, palette, paper, it’s use, handling, masking, stretching the paper, weights and textures
- Drawing/composition, looking for something interesting before painting/sketching
- Demonstrate my painting setup whilst working outside and inside in the studio
- How to set up painting outdoors. Efficient working and rotating ongoing paintings
Short break and then:
- Painting /paint along whilst demonstrating the above
- Demonstrate simple clouds/skies, seeing and interpreting light and how to paint it
- Painting simple mountains/hills, trees, fields, foliage, figures and animals. Graduations, shadows, highlights etc.
- Questions and answers
About Robert: Excelling in his early studies at school and a successful amateur artist in the 1980’s, Robert, for the last 25 years, has exhibited his work across the UK as a full time artist. His work is held in many private and corporate collections as far away as New Zealand and the United States. His no-nonsense and simple approach to painting has underpinned his work. With wide sweeping brushwork he depicts the landscape in simple, almost abstract forms, leaving the viewer to find their own interpretation of the weather, light, land and waterways that we so often take for granted. Lost in the moors, rivers and coast is where Robert is at home, making his work and witnessing the changing seasons and weather as we march through time.
Please bring paints to work with.
Charge: £15 for Friends, £20 for non-members
Contact josephinecousin@googlemail.com if you’d like to attend
You can see more of Robert’s work on Instagram at: instagram.com/robnewtonartist/
Friends of the Hatton 