Rob Newton lives and works in Northumberland. He was born in 1964 and studied Fine Art at Sunderland University from 1995 to 1998. Painting underpins the fundamental elements of Rob’s creative process. Never afraid to use colour, his work explores both composition and expression yet always maintains the painterly approach. Rob sees his work as ‘‘painting nature’’ not only in context but as a vehicle to express the medium, its plasticity and how it conveys an illusion of reality. His work is a direct response to his immediate surroundings. He makes sketches as well as visual notes and then paints intuitively and expressively with bold sweeping strokes that sum up whole passages of his subject. Painting on location and in the studio, he will rework paintings to achieve a completed work.