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Billie Newey - With no background of formal training, Billie Newey began studying drawing and painting relatively late in life with teachers in her home island of Jersey. One, Paul Kilshaw, a locally based artist, was particularly important also being instrumental in her beginning to exhibit her work. The most dominant influence has been that of Robin Child at the Lydgate Art Research Centre in Wiltshire.

This influence opened up the world of modern art from Cézanne to Joan Mitchell and Ivon Hitchens; the work of the abstract expressionists, Richard Diebenkorn and Helen Frankenthaler has been of particular interest as has the linear approach of Peter Lanyon and Keith Vaughan.

Billie Newey has exhibited in the Channel Islands and Brittany and has paintings in private collections in the UK and Jersey.

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