David Newton 'Happy Place' (Bubble Gum) Print Available

Artist: David Newton
Title: Happy Place (Bubble Gum)
Medium: Gold Leaf Embellished Screen Print
Size: 50 x 70 cm
Edition: 200
Price: £200

 

David Newton is a UK artist who creates highly coloured acrylic paintings, screenprints and picture book imagery that celebrate the collision of words, shapes and clashing colour. Born in the Midlands and now based in London, he studied Graphic Design at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design before completing an MA in Children’s Book Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, training that taught him to build narratives through bold, economical form.

Newton describes himself as an image maker who works entirely by hand. He cuts, scribbles and collages real pens, pencils and found paper, then exposes these hand-built layers directly onto silk-screens, embracing every mis-registration, splodge and colour bleed as part of the finished artwork. The process yields limited-edition prints and paintings where Art Nouveau curves meet mid-century poster geometry, all saturated in vivid oranges, purples and acid greens that he insists must clash to feel alive.

When he is not printing at Print Club London he can be found sketching in city parks and zoos, collecting visual fragments that feed picture books, festival posters and commercial commissions for clients including Pelican Books and The London Illustration Fair. By championing analogue craft in a digital age, David Newton invites viewers to celebrate the happy accident and to see storytelling in every imperfect layer of ink.