Contemporary - John Newland

John Newland was born in Norwich. He attended Norwich Art School, obtaining a National Diploma in illustration, before joining the Design Department at Jarrold Printing. In 1999 he took early retirement to devote all his time to painting.His love of and frequent visits to the countryside of East Anglia and Devon influence most of his landscape paintings, but travels to Italy and France have provided exciting new inspiration.He has recently exhibited in Zurich and has one-man shows at the St Giles Street Gallery, Norwich, in 2002 and the Bircham Gallery, Holt, in 2004. He has exhibited at mixed exhibitions at the Eastern Open, Kings Lynn and the Bircham Gallery, and has had a painting purchased by the House of Lords.

His work conveys an immediacy or spontaneity of technique but far from it, for most of his marks and workings are pondered and considered sometimes over a period of time, altered and reworked.