Lucy Newell

Lucy Colgate Newell (29 September 1906 – 22 May 1987) was an Australian artist noted for painting and textile printing.

Biography Newell was born in 1906 in Castlemaine, Victoria to artist Alice Newell She was educated at St Catherine's School and took Saturday morning art classes at Castlemaine Technical School with Miss Naples. She later did classes in watercolour painting one afternoon a week with Miss Ethel Crook of Bendigo. with whom Newell later exhibited in 1971 and which holds her artwork in their collection. She also has work in the National Gallery of Australia's collection and at Buda Historic Home & Garden.

Newell briefly had to give up artistic pursuits to care for her elderly parents, but spent ten years in Woodend creating work she wanted to do.