The first exhibition of the New English in 1886 immediately
established the NEAC as a strong voice. During the entire
20th Century, in spite of waves of movements that pulled
the art world in many directions, the club’s artists held to
their commitment to figurative art.
I think the work speaks for itself. I paint directly from things, and also from drawings, studies. Often I am trying to combine recollection and imagination, with observation, in a single picture. The result I hope for is, I suppose, a kind of fantasia, as in some old pictures in which different sites or times are combined.
I fell in love with the medium of watercolour when I stayed in Rome for a year, 1975 - 6. It was so useful for recording changing light on architecture. Later, I was inspired by music clubs and street scenes in London; later still by interiors and cityscapes. I always tried to use the medium directly and simply, exploiting washes. Now, it seldom works out that way. With oils, the process becomes more complicated and longer.
Mixed Exhibitions - Paul
Newland
2011 – 2002
Discerning Eye (Invited Artist 2010 & 2008)
2010/9/8/7/6/5
Alresford Gallery, various mixed shows
2009
Rye Art Gallery
2007
'Four Artists', Alpha House Gallery
2005
'Four Artists', Abbott and Holder, London
2004
'Four Artists', Abbott and Holder, London
1995 - 96
Cadogan Contemporary
1981 - 1987
Christopher Hull Gallery
(Twice Yearly)
1996
Gallery 21
2003 - 1989
Hunting Prizes (Most Years)
2002 - to date
NEAC (Yearly)
1981 - 2003
New Grafton Gallery (twice yearly mixed shows)
1997 - 1991
Waterman Fine Art & Offer Waterman (twice yearly, mixed shows)
1996
'Ten British Painters', Waterman
Fine Art
2009-1986
Royal Academy Summer Show
(Most Years)
1989 - to date
Royal Watercolour Society
(Twice Yearly)
1991 - 1998
Waterman Fine Art ( Twice
Yearly)
1998
Woodgates Gallery, East
Bergholt
1996
‘Ten British Painters’, Waterman Fine Art
Other mixed shows, since 1980: Cedar House Gallery; Martin’s Gallery,
Alpha House Gallery, Southwark Festival; Geedon Gallery; Cross Gate Gallery, Lexington, Ky.
One Person Shows - Paul
Newland
1982, 1986
Christopher Hull Gallery
1983, 1987
New Grafton Gallery
Scholarships/awards/prizes - Paul Newland
1968 – 9
French Government Scholarship
1989
Hunting Prizes
1995
‘House & Garden Award’ (RA Summer Show)
1999
'Best Interior', RA Summer Show
2008
Horan Prize (awarded at NEAC Autumn Show)
2008
Turner Watercolour Award, at the RWS
2008
Hugh Casson Drawing Prize (awarded at RA Summer Show)
2010
Discerning Eye (London & South-East Region Award)
Collections - Paul Newland
Sheffield Art Gallery
The Collection of HM The Queen
National Library of Wales
Private collections: Britain, the US and Europe.
Corporate collections: the US
Publications - Paul Newland
Numerous catalogues to one-person
shows
Ten British Painters
The Art of Watercolour, Dorling-Kindersley
1996
Still-life and Interiors, Dorling-Kindersley
1993
Modern Watercolour, Eaglemoss Press
1996
'The Watercolour Expert' (Cassell) 2004
'Watercolour Masters: Then and Now' (Cassell) 2008
Teaching - Paul Newland
1994 - onwards
Art History and Theory,
University of Surrey, Roehampton
1993 - 1998
Drawing, University of
Surrey, Roehampton
1979 - 1990
Visiting Lecturer - Drawing,
Morley College
Posts too numerous to
mention in the Independent and Maintained sectors
of secondary education.
