Artists Who Inspire Us

🎨 A Look at the Creative Voices That We Admire

At Newbury Studio, every collection begins with a story—sometimes personal, sometimes observational, always intentional. While our work often celebrates the quiet beauty of nature and bold, graphic composition, it’s also shaped by the artists who inspire us: their palettes, their materials, their perspectives.

Here are four artists whose work continues to spark our own creativity and challenge the way we think about form, color, and narrative.

🌺 Georgia O’Keeffe

Known for: Floral abstractions, desert landscapes, magnified nature

Inspiration for us: Her ability to elevate natural forms into iconic symbols of strength, sensuality, and stillness

O’Keeffe’s magnified florals taught the world to slow down—to notice curves, shadows, and the spaces between petals. Her use of scale, silence, and color invites intimacy with the natural world—something we strive for in every botanical print we create.

 

🖌️ Kehinde Wiley

Known for: Portraits in Old Master-style compositions

Inspiration for us: His fearless use of ornament, color, and cultural contrast

Wiley’s work blends classical art history with contemporary identity in a way that reclaims space and redefines power. His bold, decorative backdrops—often featuring stylized plants or motifs—remind us that patterns tell stories, and that color can be both celebratory and confrontational.

 

🧵 Bisa Butler

Known for: Textile portraits using vibrant fabrics

Inspiration for us: Her use of color, pattern layering, and material symbolism

Butler’s quilted portraits are both joyful and defiant. Every fabric choice is intentional, often linked to cultural memory, identity, or ancestry. We’re especially drawn to her fearless use of color and contrast—mint beside fuchsia, chartreuse against ultramarine—and the energy she brings to still forms.

🎣 Yoan Capote

Known for: Sculptural installations using unexpected materials, like fishhooks

Inspiration for us: His ability to make conceptual art tactile, political, and emotional

Capote’s large-scale seascapes made of thousands of fishhooks are haunting and powerful. They speak to migration, survival, and human desire—all through natural textures. While our work is more subdued, we share his interest in the emotional resonance of materials and the tension between beauty and discomfort.

 

✨ Final Thought

Inspiration doesn’t always come from artists working in the same medium—but it often comes from those who ask similar questions:

What do we notice? What do we overlook? What does color, texture, or scale invite us to feel?

From O’Keeffe’s stillness to Wiley’s power, from Butler’s color to Capote’s tension, these artists each remind us that art is a conversation—between subject and viewer, past and present, self and place.

 

💬 Who Inspires You?

We’d love to hear from you.

Which artists or makers shape the way you see the world—or the way you style your space?