Mark Newton

Born in London in 1966. After living in Leighton Buzzard for awhile, I moved to Northampton, England in 2003.Being an rebellious teenager, I dropped out of Art education (found the teachers boring!). It took me another twenty years before picking up the paint brushes again, at the ripe old age of 36.Although I'm in full-time employment (if I tried to live off the money I make out of my Art, I would be staring at the roots of a few weeds by now!) my heart and mind will always be in my Art; I just hope one day to give other people the same pleasure from my paintings, that I receive from creating them.MARK NEWTONThe Animal Within. We are animals that have learnt to behave.Through art, Mark is exploring the connections and separations between our primal mindset and the forms of sexual expression that exist in contemporary life. Who we are, the person that is presented to the outside world may be far removed from the person that lies within us. I think that it is generally accepted that there are two aspects to who we are: The outer person, the one that has learnt to co-exist through following rules, through moral judgements and understanding on how we should perform as a human in the complex structure of modern life. Then there is the ...

EDUCATION:NO FORMAL EDUCATION WITHIN THE ARTS: SELF-TAUGHT.EXHIBITION RECORD:2008 -2009 MIXED SHOW, THEARTBAY GALLERY, STOKE-ON-TRENT.PAINTINGS: 5 WORKS, ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS.2004MIXED SHOW, BLUE WING GALLERY, PADSTOW, CORNWALL, ENGLAND. CURATOR: BIRCAN KANAT & STEVE HARPERPAINTINGS: 5 WORKS, ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS.2002NEW GALLERY OPENING, OBSIDIAN ART, STOKE MANDERVILLE, ENGLAND. CURATOR: TRISHA WOODCOCKPAINTINGS: 2 WORKS, ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA ON CANVAS.GALLERY REPRESENTATION:2008 2009THEARTBAY GALLERY, STOKE-ON-TRENT.BIBLIOGRAPHY:GIST WORLD, COMPANY MAGAZINE, OUT OF HOURS, JULY 2003.ART PRODUCTION METHODS:PAINTING: ACRYLIC AND MIXED MEDIA ON VARIOUS SUPPORTS.SCULPTURE: WOOD AND PLASTERPHOTOGRAPHY: DIGITAL WITH COMPUTER MANIPULATION.MURALS: WATERBASED WORK.COMMISSIONS:2 PORTRAIT.1 WALL MURAL.WEBSITE REPRESENTATION:www.artofdesire.co.uk,