Peter Newell

Coffee Cup

by Peter Newell

One empty coffee cup.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
95cm x 95cm

£1,000.00

The coffee cup, always one on the go, always the opening gesture.

coffee cup

jug

by Peter Newell

just a jug I fell in love with

Original
Acrylic on canvas

£220.00

Just a jug I fell in love with and then how to paint elipses.

jugs

Two cups

by Peter Newell

Two cups, one empty one full.

Original
Acrylic on canvas

£195.00

Two coffee cups one empty one full, two approaches to life I suppose.

cups

Foucaults Forest

by Peter Newell

An exploration of Foucault's ideas about the surveillance society.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
155cm x 210cm

£1,800.00

This painting explores the CCTV mast as an image, examining the Foucault idea that society is regulated by surveillance rather than punishment

surveillance

You drink your coffee I sip my tea

by Peter Newell

A freely painted exploration of relational icons- add a homage to Breaking Glass.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
110cm x 150cm

£1,400.00

This painting explores those objects that become key bridges between one person and another, vehicles for connection.

Abstracted

surfing-you should have been here yesterday

by Peter Newell

SURFING

Original
Acrylic on canvas
95cm x 95cm

£750.00

Another one of the series that explores Pete's passion for surfing

SURFING

surfing-sometimes you just have to!

by Peter Newell

Original
Acrylic on canvas
105cm x 148cm

£750.00

One of a growing series of paintings exploring a personal passion of 45 years.

SURFING

Weeping Guitar

by Peter Newell

Original
Acrylic on canvas
170cm x 170cm

£1,100.00

guitar form

by Peter Newell

A painting that started as a small lino print.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
70cm x 84cm

£950.00

This came from a series of small lino cuts investigating guitar shape, I enlarged the print and painted each facet of the print to develop this lively image.

guitar

Shadows and Tones

by Peter Newell

Original
Acrylic on canvas
300cm x 75cm

£2,200.00

This painting represents my looking at an iconic image that could be said to have changed our world. The painting methods represent the shades of meaning that can be created with the mighty electric guitar

Goals

by Peter Newell

Original
Acrylic on canvas
250cm x 150cm

£3,000.00

Acknowedging my asspiraations as a harmonica player and guitarist

Icons

by Peter Newell

A synthesis of forms originating in interests involving guitars and surfboards and of course paint.

Original
Acrylic on canvas

£1,100.00

see notes

surfing and guitars

Kerouac's Road

by Peter Newell

Original
Acrylic on canvas
195cm x 140cm

£1,800.00

Karouac's Road was painted whilst listening to a radio programme about 'On the Road'being republished and that it had been written on one piece of continuos paper in a caffeine fuelled frenzy. There is also a bit of Ry Cooder's pink guitar in there as a tribute to his Paris Texas theme

HOMAGE

by Peter Newell

Homage represents a personal test of skill against the desire to experiment with the images borrowed or invented in response to some of those artists that have influenced me

Original
Acrylic on canvas
200cm x 120cm

£1,800.00

CHORD

by Peter Newell

Original
Acrylic on canvas
190cm x 190cm

£1,200.00

BIG C

by Peter Newell

aN ABSTRACT WORK BASED UPON THE GUITAR CHORD C.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
195cm x 195cm

£1,200.00

Open Work

by Peter Newell

This work has more exploration of surface than other works, there has been a deliberate attempt at making edges work in terms of denoting space, one area appears to recede from another, or form is created by some areas having tonal or proportional arrangements that imply more than flatness.

Original
Acrylic on canvas
75cm x 155cm

£1,200.00

The title comes from Umberto Eco's essay on the degree to which an artists creates non-narrative work relying on the viewer's experience etc.,to bring some understnding to the work.