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Isolation: Self-Imposed

Rowan Newton

Jealous North

02 Sep 2021 — 26 Sep 2021

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JEALOUS NORTH ARE PLEASED TO PRESENT A NEW BODY OF WORK BY ROWAN NEWTON

After an excellent opening at Jealous East, Jealous North is delighted to welcome Rowan Newton’s ‘Isolation: Self-Imposed’. In this exhibition, Newton reflects on how his artistic practice endures despite the social and personal impact of the pandemic. Ideas of isolation are explored through a range of bold oil paintings and portraiture.

This self-imposed isolation is an important part of Newton’s creative practice and the time he spends with his paintings, looking at them, reviewing them and refining them ultimately leads to the finished works on display today.

We can imagine ourselves as the subject or we can become an onlooker, imagining what the person in the painting is thinking or feeling.

Rowan Newton, June 2021

Newton encourages the viewers to create their own narrative for each painting and provides an opportunity for self-reflection. We can imagine ourselves as the subject; imagining what the person in the painting is thinking or feeling, or we can remain the onlooker.

Title: Waves Medium: 5 Colour Screenprint on Somerset Satin White 410gsm Paper Edges: Deckled Year: 2021 Edition: 50 Size: 44.00cm (w) x 30.00cm (h)

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Pink Tiff 2021 Oil paint on canvas board Original 17.5 x 12.5cm £370 Framed

Blue Tiff 2021 Oil paint on canvas board Original 17.5 x 12.5cm £370 Framed

Fonzarelli 2021 Pencil on paper Original 19 x 24cm £170 Framed

Forgotten Faces 15 2021 Oil on Canvas Board Original 25.7 x 20.4cm £370 Framed

Growing up in Brixton, Rowan developed an early fascination with an urban landscape constructed of graffiti and billboard advertisements. These gritty layers and textures continue to influence his work in the studio as he tirelessly works to blend them in new and conflicting ways. Rowan has been painting professionally since 2004

I want the viewer to look at something that they have seen a thousand times before, but experience it completely differently

Rowan Newton

Rowan Newton is a British painter, whose focus explores the complexity of human emotion through body language and expressive paint application. With single character compositions, Rowans figures are as complex emotionally, as they are physically contrasting. Bold and vivid, colours combine through scrapes and sweeps as he drags his mixed mediums of oil and spray paint over the canvas. The uplifting dynamism owned by the paint collides with the unassuming composition of his forms; a darker edge emerges...
Growing up in Brixton, Rowan developed an early fascination with an urban landscape constructed of graffiti and billboard advertisements. These gritty layers and textures continue to influence his work in the studio as he tirelessly works to blend them in new and conflicting ways.
Rowan’s work has been in various exhibitions and art fairs in the UK and further afield including the The Original Print Fair at The Royal Academy, Stroke Art Fair, Affordable Art Fairs internationally and the London Art Fair, as well as having his work auctioned at the House of Commons in 2014. His work has also shown internationally, from New York to Amsterdam to Shanghai. He has been featured on respected websites such as Empty Kingdom, Maestro Knows, and Zeutch; and his work has graced the cover of Diplomat Magazine and the pages of the Great Big Book of Fashion Illustration.