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Posted on July, 2026July, 2026

Newberry Books

Posted on April, 2026September, 2026

Michael Newberry: Who He Is

Posted on February, 2026April, 2026

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

Posted on August, 2025

I Love Being Older, But …

Posted on June, 2025

Against the Wall

Posted on November, 2024May, 2026

Exploring the Boundaries of Abstraction, Color, Composition, and Other Directions

Posted on June, 2024

Memoir: Chapter 8, The Exaltation Series (Written Today)

Posted on August, 2023May, 2026

A Pastel Odyssey: Chasing Color and Light in the Aegean

Newberry, White-Washed House in Lefkes, Paros, 1988
Posted on June, 2023

Recreating a Renaissance

Posted on April, 2023

Olympia (Jennifer Grossman) Among the Sharks

Newberry, Olympia (Jennifer Grossman) Among the Sharks, 2020, oil on linen, 48x64”.
Posted on February, 2023

Art Beyond Commissions: Exploring the Deeper Purpose and Meaning of Creativity

Posted on February, 2023

Tales from Turkey

Newberry, Topkapi Palace Walls, 1988, pastel on paper, 19x26".

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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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