PAUL NEWLAND

I was born and lived most of my life in London, moving to Lewes about ten years ago.

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I was trained at The Slade School of Fine Art.

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Watercolour was my medium of choice for a long time - I found it useful for seizing on momentary perceptions of things and originally took it up when living in Rome. Later, back in England, the watercolours became more complicated.

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I became a member of the Royal Watercolour Society in 1990.

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Oil painting was always present in my work of course and became my main activity after about 2000.

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I was elected to The New English Art Club in the mid-noughties.

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Street scenes in the earlier watercolours gave way to still life (which I still approach from time to time) and cityscapes and now, to landscape as well.

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I work outside and, perhaps more often, from drawings and studies of various kinds.