My artwork is featured in the new edition of Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine! They have used one of my Imaginary Star Charts to illustrate the article Changing The World: The Pudding of Experience, which you can also read online here, and one of my Ground & Sky Painted Stone Collections to illustrate A Poet for All Times, a feature about Rabindranath Tagore, who in 1913 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
It was a real honour to be featured in this wonderful magazine, full of interesting articles illustrated by beautiful artwork throughout. You can purchase a copy via their site here.
I just wanted to share two new landscape paintings I created for the recent Art 7 show at Peter Pears Gallery in Aldeburgh. Both are fairly large (for me!), and one of them is still available. The Quiet Of The Night sold at the show, but Patchwork Hills 5 is available to purchase directly from me, so if you're interested please get in touch! It is priced at £575.00 (details and measurements can be found below). I hope you enjoy them.
I've been meaning to post these new paintings on the blog for a couple of weeks. If you follow me on Twitter or Flickr you may have seen them already - actually, Patchwork Hills 4 was chosen by Flickr to be featured in their Explore section, which was a lovely surprise! The image itself has been viewed more than 2,700 times already; that's pretty amazing to me. Anyway, these landscape paintings were made especially for the show Art by the Sea at the Serena Hall Gallery in Southwold, Suffolk, UK. If you're in the area, perhaps go along and see them in person - and let me know if you do!
To find out what I've been up to and to see all of the pieces created for the project so far (including more on this bird in particular), you can follow along on the A Bird A Day blog. I'll be back soon with more artwork to show you as I'm currently working on some large landscape paintings for an upcoming show at the Serena Hall Gallery in Southwold, Suffolk. You can also find all the paintings I've made so far this year here, and there are lots of new pieces in both shops: www.etsy.com/shop/theblackbirdsings and www.etsy.com/shop/abirdaday
I'm also donating 10% of all proceeds from the A Bird A Day shop to the charity Comic Relief, helping disadvantaged people in the UK and Africa, until 30th April.
I may not be a mother, or a wife - I don't yet, and may never, have a family of my own (sometimes I feel a little sad about that and at other times I'm not sure if that type of life is really for me anyway) and I don't have much in the way of family around me any more.
Sometimes that's hard, and sometimes I can feel a bit lonely. But then I look at what I do have.
I have a growing network of wonderful, kind, like-minded, and talented friends and colleagues here in England, a sweet and loving boyfriend, and his family and friends in Paris and the United States. These are all people who care about me, and who I care a great deal about; people who have helped me to become who I am today, who seem to accept and love me for who I am, and who make me feel worthy of being loved. I'm sure we've all had our share of people in our lives who have made us feel the opposite way, so I always feel so grateful for that.
{Patterned Landscape 4, a new 7x5" painting on paper I added to the shop a couple of days ago - now sold.}
Life isn't always easy, is it? We have difficulties and sadness, separation and upset, worries about this and that, large and small. But everyday, no matter how I feel, the one thing I always try to remember is how grateful I am for what I do have. So thank you to everyone out there who supports me in every way (and that includes the people who follow my blog, leave encouraging comments, or buy my work). I am - and always will be - grateful for you all. I can only hope that I give something worthwhile back to you. And every day I'm working on that too.
Hello and welcome! I'm Natasha Newton: artist, illustrator and image maker. I divide my time between Suffolk, UK and Paris, France.
I've recently started a new project for 2013 called A Bird A Day. Please click on the links at the top of the page to find my website, shops, and the A Bird A Day blog.
For questions and enquiries, or to be added to my mailing list, please send an email to natasha@natasha-newton.co.uk and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.
