Spanning the worlds of Portraiture, Landscape, The Nude, Abstraction and Still Life, Alexander Newley-s project fuses the Fine Art traditions of patient observation and draughtsmanship with the transcendental intuitions of the mystic. -For me, art is a moral activity,- he says, -a straining after the highest virtue of beauty and enlarged consciousness. As such, all art is essentially religious, even when it shows us the ugliness of a fallen world.-Complementing the images is Newley-s personal reminiscence, placing each work in a fascinating narrative of self-becoming -and an often-dogged determination to stay true to his calling. The result is a unique account of an artist-s journey in his own words, firmly setting before us a body of work that continues to evolve and explore, always affirming a uniquely -human- future.
