Mike Newton

A painter, photographer & procrastinator.

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My portrait of Percy Bysshe Shelley for #internationalportraitday Oil on Linen 60x50 cm. @NPGLondon

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Virginia Woolfe Oil on Portrait Linen 35x30 cm. A slower approach to portraiture looking back to the series I did in lockdown with a corner left unfinished to show the facture..
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🟢 Available DM for pricing.
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#virginiawoolfe #poeticpainting #poeticportrait #contemporyart

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@FeargalShiels Very jolly ;o)

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Here some more highlights from our storm lashed opening event yesterday.

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@StIvesSociety A great afternoon at the opening, lots of friendly chats and great art to looks at. The hanging team did a superb job of getting so much work on display while keeping it coherent.

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Michael Andrews.

A Man who Suddenly Fell Over.

1952.

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@philosophors

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@philosophors

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@OutlawsPoetic

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@FeargalShiels Made me think of a papal pillow for some reason. 🇻🇦

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@JANUSZCZAK Great to be able to read some of your back catalogue this weekend. Already booked a trip to London to see the Glenn Brown and the Baselitz on your recommendation. Thanks.

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Allen Ginsberg was born #onthisday in 1926. He was an American #poet and writer who was a core member of the #BeatGeneration. Best known for his poem "Howl", Ginsberg denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformityin the USA. #howl #portrait

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@FeargalShiels Steady on there…;o)

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#thomashardy born #otd in 1840 was an English novelist and #poet influenced by Romanticism. #oilpainting #portrait

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@cinematicfella @DannyDrinksWine From my series of 60 #womenyoushouldknow

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I’ve been reading Anna Akhmatova. As usual. Love this portrait of her by Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. And here’s today’s poem..

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@JANUSZCZAK From my series of #womenyoushouldknow

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@HorcherF @IrisMurdoch I imagined them all feeling that Britain was taking a big cultural step backwards with Brexit.

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@HorcherF @IrisMurdoch Thank you. I did a series of ‘distressed’ portraits of philosophers.