About
Education
Selected Exhibitions
Robert Newton (b. 1964) is a British artist who studied fine art at Sunderland University in the United Kingdom. Currently residing in the north-east of England, he is known for both his expressive landscape works and intense small-scale paintings and monotypes. Newton’s smaller works are intimate tablets of colour, tone and energetic mark-making. At first glance they appear to be loosely painted without any resolution, almost casual in execution – and yet upon closer inspection reveal everything seen and felt, with every mark of paint carefully considered, a process requiring intuition and confident sublime mark-making, with each work being discovered rather than designed. The larger paintings follow the same theme where there is trust deeply rooted in the repetition and practice of craft over many years, with an awareness of the history of painting. Rather than define any geographically specific location, the works are a record of memories and experiences whilst exploring contemporary environmental and existential issues, wholly embracing self-discovery through artistic expression.
2001 Fine Art, Sunderland University (DipHE)
One/ Two Person
2024 Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2021 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
2019 Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2018 Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, Northumberland
2018 The Line Gallery, Linlithgow
2017 Junction Art Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
2016 EDS Gallery, Edinburgh
2015 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
2015 Tallantyre Gallery, Morpeth, Northumberland
2013 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2013 Denise Yapp, Monmouth, Wales
2011 Bianco Nero Gallery,Stokesley, North Yorkshire
2011 Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2010 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
2010 Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 The Ruthven Gallery, Auchterarder, Perthshire
2009 Lime Tree Gallery, Long Melford, Suffolk
2008 Bianco Nero Gallery, Stokesley, North Yorkshire
2007 The Ruthven Gallery, Auchterarder, Perthshire
2006 Bianco Nero Gallery, Stokesley, North Yorkshire
2005 Tallantyre Gallery, Morpeth, Northumberland
2004 Dial Gallery, Warkworth, Northumberland
2003 Dial Gallery, Warkworth, Northumberland
2002 Dial Gallery, Warkworth, Northumberland
2001 Dial Gallery, Warkworth, Northumberland
Curated and Juried Exhibitions
2025 Colour Matters, Wylam, Northumberland - Curated by Ursula Ojikutu
2025 WILD, Three Rooms Gallery, London - Curated by Stephen Keane
2025 Northumberland Open, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland (First Prize)
2024 ING Discerning Eye, London
2024 Redcar Contemporary Art Summer Exhibition, Redcar, Cleveland
2018 Northumberland Open, Woodhorn Museum, Northumberland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025 Gorstella Gallery, Cheshire
2025 Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2024 Watermark Gallery - Harrogate, North Yorkshire
2024 Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire
2024 Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2023 Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire
2022 Edinburgh Art Fair (Lime Tree Gallery)
2021 The Old School Gallery, Alnmouth, Northumberland
2020 AAF Battersea, London (Tallantyre Gallery)
2019 Zillah Bell Gallery, Thirsk, North Yorkshire
2018 AAF Battersea, London, Lime Tree Gallery
2017 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne
2016 AAF Bristol and London, Lime Tree Gallery
2015 Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Whitebrook Monmouthshire
2014 Morningside Gallery, Edinburgh
2014 Tolquhon Gallery, Aberdeenshire
2013 Foss Fine Art, London
2012 Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2011 Denise Yapp Contemporary Art, Whitebrook Monmouthshire
2010 Mellerstain House, Kelso
2009 Wide Skies, Lime Tree Gallery, Bristol
2008 AAF Battersea London (Tallantyre Gallery)
2008 Josie Eastwood Fine Art, Hampshire
2007 The Ruthven Gallery,
2006 Art Ireland, Dublin (Tallantyre Gallery)
2006 Broughton Gallery, Broughton, Peebles
2005 Bianco Nero Gallery, Stokesley, North Yorkshire
2005 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2003 The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle
2002 Tallantyre Gallery, Morpeth
1998, 2000, 2001, 2002 Dial Gallery, Warkworth