Penny Newman

Penny always liked to draw and paint as a child, and decided to begin drawing and painting again about thirty years ago. She attended several one day, weekend and short courses in Cambridge and East Anglia, with a focus on drawing, watercolour, pen and wash and watercolour pencils.

Penny particularly enjoys painting outside ‘plein air’ where the weather, atmosphere and happenings of the day all contribute towards the completed work.

Open landscapes, trees, plants and flowers and buildings within the landscape are subjects that she returns to repeatedly. She also likes to paint inside in a more leisurely way and enjoys painting flowers and found objects in representative and more abstract approaches.

Penny has exhibited art work at Stow cum Quy; the National Trust’s Anglessey Abbey; The Missing Sock restaurant in Bottisham;  Newmarket library; The Hayard Gallery in Ely; Ely Court House with the Ely Art Society; and with the Society of East Anglian Watercolourists.

Penny was the winner of ‘The Museum of the Broads’ Watercolour Challenge in both 2012 and 2013.