{"id":84091,"date":"2025-09-28T06:00:42","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T10:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=84091"},"modified":"2025-09-22T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T16:08:32","slug":"cover-artist-li-newton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-li-newton\/","title":{"rendered":"<strong>Cover Artist:<\/strong> Li Newton"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_84094\" style=\"width: 1210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84094\" class=\"size-full wp-image-84094\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"996\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2-1024x850.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2-768x637.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2-810x672.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_DangerousBeauty-copy-2-1140x946.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84094\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dangerous Beauty. Li Newton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By Gina Malone<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Li Newton\u2019s journey with art, she has not only found her style as an artist who \u201cpaints with paper\u201d but she has learned to trust her instincts and intuition in the way she lives as well as in the way she creates. Her self-actualization involved learning new skills but also coming to terms with both discouragement from an art instructor during her college years and, more significantly, abuse that happened in her childhood.<\/p>\n<p>Newton grew up traveling around the US and Germany as the youngest child in an Air Force family. \u201cMoving often was rough, without a home base and frequently being the new kid in school,\u201d she says. \u201cIt was also magical spending time wandering through European and American museums and historical sites, listening to world music and devouring books about classical painting and artists.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84095\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84095\" class=\"wp-image-84095\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_Dreamtime39_2025-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84095\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dreamtime. Li Newton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>She left the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts broken-spirited after an art teacher questioned her talent and presence in the class. \u201cI dropped out and went forward aimlessly trying to figure out if I was good at anything,\u201d she says. In her mid-twenties, she applied to Otis-Parsons [now Otis College of Art and Design], in Los Angeles, and was admitted as a second-year student. \u201cI still felt so overwhelmed and underqualified compared to the other students that I quit again,\u201d she says. \u201cAn unfortunate pattern I did not understand until years later when I started delving into past sexual trauma with some gut-wrenching, lifesaving therapy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Through the years, she found many healing encounters, including with the outdoors. \u201cI moved to the Sierra Nevada mountains, with the help of my sister, and became entrenched in backcountry living\u2014working my body until exhausted, learning high-altitude cooking, telemark skiing and mountain skills,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84097\" style=\"width: 410px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84097\" class=\"wp-image-84097\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2-1019x1024.jpg 1019w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2-768x772.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2-810x814.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_VictoryLapLi_14-copy-2-1140x1146.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84097\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victory Lap. Li Newton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>During this time, she also discovered silk painting after a silk painter came to the lodge during a snowstorm and taught the crew the basics. \u201cI was hooked and my artist brain woke up again,\u201d Newton says. \u201cLearning to live without many modern conveniences, and relearning self-reliance and survival skills also taught me to trust my instincts and intuition. While high-altitude cooking for White Mountain Research Center, I eventually found the right partner and his unwavering support of my artistic abilities encouraged me to explore without fear of failure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She sold her silk paintings in art markets for 15 years, while also exploring acrylics, soft pastels, mosaics, carving and printmaking. \u201cMy colors and subjects in traditional mediums, excluding silks, were quiet and muted, introspective,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p>A move to a remote island research center in the Bahamas brought further blossoming of her true self. \u201cI lived in the water daily, discovering the magical universe of ocean life,\u201d says Newton. \u201cIt was like being born again, every day coming home excited to share what I\u2019d seen and experienced. Living there flipped a switch in my art in such a profound way, like every cell was awake. The colors exploded on my palette; curious creatures began to fill my canvases. Joy, curiosity and even humor started appearing in my work. All of my current work reflects my relationship with the natural world, wildlife and my own place in it. I often am inspired by the thousands of photos I\u2019ve taken, many underwater.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84096\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84096\" class=\"wp-image-84096\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2.jpg 1060w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2-678x1024.jpg 678w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2-768x1159.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2-1018x1536.jpg 1018w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_FoxOTAGlen-copy-2-810x1223.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84096\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fox of Autumn Glen. Li Newton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In 2014, Asheville\u2019s art scene called and she relocated. She continued to work other jobs and paint on the side until she joined Trackside Studios in 2022. \u201cI quit all my \u2018real\u2019 jobs and started working as a full-time, self-supporting artist,\u201d she says. \u201cYippee!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her recent work has centered around collage, a medium she discovered while stuck at home during COVID without the materials she needed for painting. What she did have were stacks of books, maps and old calendars. \u201cI started covering up my \u2018bad\u2019 paintings with stuff around my studio,\u201d she says. She decided they looked like mosaics without the pain of having to cut glass.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is an intimacy to tearing out paper and watching a portrait or scene come to life as I build up layers,\u201d Newton says. \u201cMy latest large-scale paper collages feature thousands of individually hand-cut pieces. The addition of other materials coalesce into a rich, textured surface density and luminous, atmospheric layers of color and light. I am captivated by creating beauty from objects forgotten or in decay.\u201d She starts with a general idea, maybe a loose pastel line drawing, then lets the papers show her the way. Each piece is finished with layers of gel medium and an acrylic varnish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLi is a shining gem at Trackside Studios,\u201d says fellow artist and Trackside manager Julie Ann Bell. \u201cShe creates on site several days a week so visitors can watch her process, as she turns scraps of paper into a stunning completed work.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_84099\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-84099\" class=\"wp-image-84099\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2-241x300.jpg 241w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2-824x1024.jpg 824w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2-768x955.jpg 768w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2-810x1007.jpg 810w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Cover-Artist-Li-Newton_NestledInMoonlight51-copy-2-1140x1417.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-84099\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nestled in Moonlight. Li Newton, artist<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Newton has a favorite among the collages she has created. \u201cOne day during all that crazy survivor therapy, I was riding my bike through the desert with my blue heeler, Max,\u201d she says. \u201cSuddenly, all the work clicked; it wasn\u2019t my fault, no one especially a child asks to be abused. I started screaming and ugly crying. The next day my life changed and I started getting better by the day. Years later, while collaging, I found an old magazine ad about a housewife being a warrior in the kitchen, wearing an 1800s war helmet. From this image, a collage happened so organically I was barely involved. It was me riding, standing on the bike pedals as a helmet head warrior with butterfly wings coming out of my back, arms and legs, rising up proudly. Metamorphosed into my true self. Blooming.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Li Newton Fine Arts is located at Trackside Studios, 375 Depot Street, in the River Arts District, and at Village Artist Market, 32 All Souls Crescent, in Biltmore Village. Learn more at <a href=\"http:\/\/LiNewtonFineArts.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LiNewtonFineArts.com<\/a> and follow on <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/li.newton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/li.newton\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Facebook<\/a> @li.newton.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Throughout Li Newton\u2019s journey with art, she has not only found her style as an artist who \u201cpaints with paper\u201d but she has learned to trust her instincts and intuition in the way she lives as well as in the way she creates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":84095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-visual-arts"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - 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