Douglas Newton

Radicchio, food still life, purple on grey, super realistic painting

2023

This painting was inspired by vegetables from our local farmer's market. Both the red onion and squash have beautiful forms, color and texture that are captured in oil paint. Painted...

Crumpled colored tissue paper and two bistro glasses. A study of color and texture. Painted from life, not a photo. Clean white sides.

A still life painting of two cellophane wrapped hard candies, one violet and the other red, backlit on a gray background. This food / childhood themed painting is a study of transpar...

Doug Newton’s hyper-real oil paintings observe reality, explore translucency, reflections and luminosity, and dazzle the viewer with all the ways light can transform our perceptions. His subject matter concentrates on still lives of food, toys, candy and household objects. In addition to many group shows across the country, Mr. Newton’s show, “HARD CANDY and other confections” represents his fifth solo exhibition. His paintings have been collected in numerous private collections. Dr. Sonia Coman writes in her essay, Doug Newton’s hard candy: the confection of painting Doug Newton’s paintings are about… painting. The hyperrealist technique of trompe l’oeil or “trick the eye” is knowingly playful. It simultaneously calls attention to the illusion of a different material—for example, translucent candy wrappers—and the reality of the layers of paint, masterfully applied to the canvas. In that, Newton’s paintings pay homage to an esteemed series of trompe l’oeil masters, from Inquisition-era Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán to Gilded-Age American painter William Michael Harnett...

Bart Koning (Dutch artist) Radicchio di Treviso 28,7 x 37,6 cm ( framed included 29,1 x 38 cm) Oil paint on wood panel We're proud to introduce Dutch/ German artist Bart Koning. In...

Dutch artist Nico Heilijgers (1964) works in the tradition of the great seventeenth-century painters. Heilijgers' paintings are characterized by aest...

Elizabeth Osborne (b.1936). Still Life Cabbage, 1983. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 22.5 x 30 inches; 29.5 x 37 inches in custom frame. Original Fischbach Gallery label affixed...

Beets 50 x 122 ccm Framed in a white gold gilded frame: 71 x 143 Oil paint on wood panel Dutch artist, painter, Adriana van Zoest, lives and works in Warmenhuizen, in the North of ...