Michael Newberry - Bio

From my first experience, at 11, of seeing a Rembrandt image in a bookstore window, to sharing art with friends, artists, and collectors, love and wonder have been and are the guiding forces in my art world.

I started selling my art at 17 followed by art school in California and Holland. Still in art school, I started exhibiting and continue to do so on a yearly basis. In 2009 I opened Newberry Gallery in Santa Monica.

Some of my art is intimate, smaller work reflecting the beauty and uniqueness of the landscapes, interiors, and people in my life. My larger work embodies human themes of pride, esteem, happiness, and quests.

In 1956 I was born in La Jolla, California. I started painting at 11, went on to be a Fine Arts major at U.S.C. and studied with Edgar Ewing. At 20 I studied art at the Free Academy in The Hague, Holland. I then painted and exhibited in Holland, New York City, Los Angeles, Rhodes, Greece, and now, in Santa Monica.

In La Jolla, at age 11, I discover Rembrandt, and begin painting. At 17, I started selling my paintings and drawings.

I studied under modernist Edgar Ewing as a fine art major at U.S.C., then studied in Holland at the Free Academy Psychopolis. Rembrandt, Vermeer, Picasso, and the French Impressionists serve as my influences.

I painted and exhibited throughout Europe and the United States. In the early 1990's, I taught foundation courses of Life Drawing, Drawing and Composition, and Painting at Otis/Parsons in Los Angeles.

I moved to New York,  and continued to paint and draw prolifically. I started the Newberry Workshop and share my knowledge through a series of online Art-Tutorials.

Opening the Newberry Gallery in Santa Monica, California in the Spring of 2009. My work can be seen in a growing image library of over 600 images, one of the largest archives of a living artist on the web, created and hosted by Brett Holverstott.

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