Jonathan Newdick
English artist (born 1948)
Jonathan Newdick (born 1948) is an artist and writer born in Newbury, who was brought up in the rural South of England. His work references trees, buildings and the land; drawings about rather than of things.
Career
In 1971 after graduating from The West Sussex College of Art he was employed as a designer in Fleet Street, but left London and returned to Sussex, where he worked as a typographer and then book designer. He was also a visiting lecturer at Kingston University, alongside working as a designer of books and magazines, while continuing, unfashionably, to draw landscapes. His diverse work ethic led to a Spanish network television documentary production in the early 1980s.
In 1990 he was awarded a master's degree in the Cultural and Critical Theory of British Art from the University of Sussex after which he turned from designing to drawing and printmaking.
He was the Artist in Residence at Petworth House for the National Trust in the late 1990s, where he spent a year on the estate, often working on large-scale pieces in the fields.
In 2009 he published The Red Handkerchief / Il Fazzoletto Rosso and Thirty Very Short Stories about which Estelle Sosland, then Chair of the Trustees of the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City wrote: '[Newdick] is doing something that is not just unique but creates a significant innovation for the arts.'
In 2011, he began work on a set of pencil drawings which can be seen as a continuation of the Recording Britain scheme of the Second World War, documenting barns and farm buildings of the Leconfield Estate in West Sussex which appeared to be under threat from development.
His work has been exhibited as part of public collections in properties owned by the National Trust.
In 2022 he began working with the Turkish pianist Lara Melda, interpreting her Chopin nocturnes as a set of graphite transfer monoprints.
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