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Newton & Frizzell perform Compass Rose an original song.

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The music for Compass Rose came to me while exploring open G tuning on my guitar. To me it sounded like a traditional country folk song. I gave a recording with me humming the melody to for my poet friend Kate Holly. She thought of the image of a map's compass rose and the story followed from that. I played through it a couple of times with the lyrics and story complete and got the idea of finishing with the Johnny Cash quote from his song "I Walk The Line".

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Mark Newton

Musician, Artist, and Decorative Artisan

My creative pursuits in art and music have interrelated throughout my life and professional careers. Here I share selections of my ongoing work.

If you are interested in my music, fine art, or decorative arts services, or if you just want to learn more, don't hesitate to contact me.

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Throughout my life of fascination with visual art, I developed a special interest in what I have come to refer to as "natural abstraction." During my career in the painting trade, my curiosity and aptitude for interpreting natural patterns turned into expertise in creating faux finishes and other specialized decorative arts techniques. Decades on, that career has earned me the freedom to follow my muse in a deeper exploration of this natural abstraction. The most successful results are inventions of something new yet bearing the familiarity of something arising in nature. I want to invite the viewer to see nature in things we don’t easily recognize. I hope others will find these explorations as compelling as I do.
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