Charles Newington Auction Sale !

At the end of last year I had a pleasure to meet a fascinating artist: Charles Newington. Of course, I wrote about the encounter in one of my posts. It was at a gallery in Folkestone. He showed me many of his works and told me many stories from his eventful life.  This evening I have been looking at many of his works and items from his collection that will be on sale on Monday, September 14th at Folkestone Auction House. I enjoyed it a lot and thought you may like to  read about Charles as an artist and see the online auction catalogue as well.

Charles Newington - Visionary Artist

Description:
Charles Newington - Visionary Artist. b 1950, British, AR. Grand Auctions is delighted to present the studio sale of Charles Newington., one of Britain's most original artists. Charles is best known in the Folkestone area for his White Horse on the Hill, a much loved local landmark and now the logo for Shepway District Council. From student days to the present, Charles has always felt himself the outsider following his own path and ignoring popular trends. He spent a number of years dedicated to working with leading artists, such as Patrick Procktor, as their master printer / etching technician. These were the years he acquired all the skills to develop his career in printing, painting and creating monumental monsters. Like his hero William Blake, he feels that he has developed an original inventiveness in creating new techniques. Charles' world has changed dramatically in the last few years. He was chosen by the Coast TV programmers to be the reincarnation of William Daniell painting today one of the coastal scenes so wonderfully depicted by Danniell in the early 19th century. He has been taken into the fold of one of London's most prestigious galleries, Whitford Fine Art, in Duke Street, St James's. Plymouth Council has asked him to create a monumental sculpture of GogMagog taken from the legends of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the 12th century. He is working with the Royal Geographical Society in its celebration of the epic poem Poly-Olbion, which starts with the story of Gog Magog on Plymouth Hoe. He has also designed two massive colossal sculptures of Gog and Magog for the London Gateway on either side of the Thames estuary in their later role as guardians of London. The visionary artists William Blake, Richard Dadd and Samuel Palmer are the inspiration for Charles. Imagination, original ideas and superb draftsmanship are the key to his work. His paintings are complex and deep, but most rewarding to study. It is so rare to come across the work of an artist with original and visionary ideas.'