Cityscapes & City Subjects

annenewman artist

I have a great love of brick buildings which were common in my birth town of Bendigo. The paintings in this gallery represent my latest works and show my developing interest in genre painting focusing on the narratives of people who live in the city.

Early Genre Studies

These paintings are my first attempts to construct in the genre style where I strive to engage my viewers in sharing my narrative and the narrative of the subjects I seek to represent. The subjects are ordinary people engaged in ordinary daily activities. It is from this beginning that I have developed my interest in genre painting.

Figures, Nudes and Life Drawings

These paintings and drawings illustrate my interest in learning more about how to represent the human figure in its many poses. As a genre artist I need to constantly build on my knowledge of the human figure and how it can be shown. I am not a portrait artist and therefore do not want to create realistic images of my subjects. I want to capture the quirkiness of humans but to do this I need to constantly practise my painting and drawing of figures.

Gardens and Garden Subjects

These paintings reflect my love of gardening.

Landscapes & Rural Subjects

These paintings represent my view of both the Australian countryside and European. I intend to develop some paintings around my memories of growing up in Central Victoria. I particularly like the images of fence posts, wire and gates.

Miscellaneous

These paintings represent experimental work I have done that doesn't slot easily into the other galleries. In this collection are also "one-off" subjects that I don't regularly paint.

Scenes from Europe

Paintings that show the texture in old buildings are featured in this gallery. Many of the ideas come from my travels to Europe, particularly Italy where the richness of the sun on old buildings stimulates me to paint.

Seascapes & Sea Subjects

Scenes of life near the sea and the interaction between the water and clouds form the basis for this gallery. I have ideas to do a series of paintings on patterns along the foreshore: patterns made by water, clouds, sand, rock and grasses.

Sketches

A collection of drawings and quick sketches I have done as a foundation for later paintings.

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Wilcannia Bridge, New South Wales

61cm x 76cm. Oil on canvas. This was a birthday present for a dear friend who was born in Wilcannia and spent many years there as a young child. I hope I have captured some of her fond memories of this wonderful part of our country.

Landscapes & Rural Subjects

Young Love

60cm x 92cm. Oil on canvas. Unframed.
This painting is a wedding present to a great young couple I know. I have tried to incorporate their European backgrounds and love of the sea into the composition. The red and white lighthouse is a symbol of guidance.

Available as a digital print or photoprint.

Scenes from Europe

The Dekk

124cm x 63cm. Oil on canvas. Box Frame. A cityscape genre painting belonging to the series on Docklands.One of a pair with The Studdio. Can be bought separately. REDUCED PRICE.