watercolour painter, daughter of Alice Newell , began her art education with Saturday morning classes at the Castlemaine Technical School under Miss Naples (later Mrs Brent Clark) and subsequently with Miss Ethel Crook of Bendigo, who held watercolour landscape painting classes one afternoon at week at Castlemaine. After the family moved to South Yarra, she attended the National Gallery School, 'which in those days was a rather gruelling five year course under Bernard Hall. I went most of the way through but never wanted to paint portraits, which was the aim of the course, nor to paint in oils, which was the medium used.’ After leaving the school, Lucy Newell taught herself textile printing, using lino blocks and vat dyes.

In this way I kept the wolf from the door, and painted in my spare time. That lasted until I had to give up work for the sake of elderly parents, but for the last ten years I have been living in Woodend and able to do the work I really want to do.

Many of her watercolour landscapes are in private possession, many dating from the 1970s. The National Gallery of Australia holds her linocut on cotton fabric (c.1955).

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Date written:

1999

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2011