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Michael Newberry is a creative figurative artist who has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Seattle, Athens, and Rome. With a solo career spanning artistic, teaching, and art writing fields, he has garnered appreciation from artists and collectors, some as far away as Japan and Australia. His figures tell stories that resonate with those seeking a realm where thought, emotion, and senses intertwine. The journey through Newberry’s art can be transformative. Of his growing collection of over 1,100 works, 800 have found loving homes.
Posted on March, 2026

Nice! First page of google search: “40 000 years continuum of figurative art.”

Posted on March, 2026March, 2026

Art!

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Memoir: Chapter 16, Santa Monica Splendor (Part 1)

Posted on January, 2026May, 2026

The Payoff of Visual Perception: Exaltation

Posted on December, 2025December, 2025

Unlocking the Passionate Artist Within

Posted on December, 2025

Update: Shadows blocked in on Eve

Posted on December, 2025

Introduction to Soulscape

Nike of Samothrace or Winged Victory, 200-190 BC, photo Lyokoi88, Wikimedia
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Postmodern Art Institutions In Context

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Eve, background blocked in

Posted on December, 2025December, 2025

Art’s Hivemind and Mischievously Poking Its Nest

Posted on November, 2025

Progress on Eve

Posted on November, 2025

Available From My Studio

Posted on November, 2025

Notes While the Painting of Eve Takes Shape

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The Space Series—Secular Gods Ennobling and Uplifting Humanity
Rapture: The Space Series
Rapture: The Space Series is a cycle of 24 life-size paintings (each 64×48″, oil on linen) of gods and goddesses set against nebula backgrounds. Spanning birth to old age.
The theme is that their shadowed selves are transparent and the stuff of the universe, lines mark their boundaries, and light defines who they are. 19 of 24 completed.
Michael Newberry painting on location in Australia
Michael Newberry
Michael Newberry (b. 1956, La Jolla, California) is an artist whose lifelong aim is to be the best artist he can be. Since selling his first artwork at 17, he has sold over one million dollars' worth of work worldwide and exhibited internationally from New York and Los Angeles to Greece, Rome, Brussels, and Washington, D.C. He is currently (2022 to present) completing Rapture: The Space Series, a cycle of twenty-four 64×48″ paintings of gods and goddesses against nebula backgrounds.
Newberry Books
Newberry Books
Sharing a lifetime of practice and reflection through eight books.
Newberry Art Inventory
Newberry Art Inventory
Newberry Art Inventory is my site dedicated to offering available artworks from my studio.
The Newberry Art Files
The Newberry Art Files
The Newberry Art Files contain over 1,500 works created across more than five decades.
The Dreamgate Vision
The Dreamgate Vision
Dreamgate is a vision for a permanent sanctuary dedicated to Rapture: The Space Series.
Newberry Art Inventory
Available art from my studio
Figurative Drawings
Figurative Oil Sketches
Figurative Pastels
Figurative Sketches
Landscape Pastels
Landscape Plein Air Oil
Still Life Drawings
Still Life Paintings
Still Life Pastels
The Wave Series
Available Major Works
Available Major Works
Rapture is not for everyone. But if it is for you, then so are my major works.
Figurative Major Works
Archive of My Major Figurative Paintings
The Wave Series
The Wave Series, Available As One Work
The Wave Series is a collection of sixteen pastel wavescapes working out my color theory, and how it enhances form, light, and space.

Social links:
Facebook Where I communicate with friends and collectors.
Substack Sharing my writing and art with other creatives.
Reddit Over 2.5 million views on my art posts.
YouTube Tutorials, talks, time-lapse, and reveals.

Michael Newberry at work
Photo of Michael Newberry by Stephen Hicks
Amazon Author Page
Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea: The Transformative Power of Art
In this short reflection, I explore Gérôme’s Pygmalion and Galatea—a stunning depiction of transformation and artistic creation. The painting captures the moment an artwork comes to life, embodying the timeless idea that art has the power to awaken the spirit and make the inanimate radiant.
Contact
I welcome inquiries about my work for private, public, and museum art collections.
Michael
Email: mtnewberry@gmail.com
Stephen Hicks on Michael Newberry
“My favorite living painter is an artist named Michael Newberry.” — Philosopher Stephen Hicks
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