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Faithfully Perfecting Portraits

Introducing Australian artist Paul Newton’s more than 20 years of mastering portraiture, featuring many eminent Australians and Americans.
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Faithfully Perfecting Portraits
“Jonathan Bell,”  2002, by Paul Newton. Oil on canvas; 26 inches by 36 inches. The Portrait Society of America International Portrait Competition 2003, First Place Painting prize. Courtesy of Paul Newton
Lorraine Ferrier
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Australian portrait painter Paul Newton has been perfecting the art of visual storytelling for more than 20 years. Much like a songwriter marries words to a melody, every time Mr. Newton paints people, he makes their souls sing. “I’m more articulate with paint than I am with words,” he told The Epoch Times.

He’s fluently painted saints, prime ministers, Ivy League school officials, and industry chairpersons and presidents. The Australia Post even commissioned him to create Christmas nativity stamps.

Lorraine Ferrier
Lorraine Ferrier
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Lorraine Ferrier writes about fine arts and craftsmanship for The Epoch Times. She focuses on artists and artisans, primarily in North America and Europe, who imbue their works with beauty and traditional values. She's especially interested in giving a voice to the rare and lesser-known arts and crafts, in the hope that we can preserve our traditional art heritage. She lives and writes in a London suburb, in England.