Neil was born in Oxfordshire, but began his artistic career in rural Mid Wales, before finally settling near St. Ives where he has continued to create majestic work inspired by the interactions of light and weather upon the sea and the land. It is this relationship which has fascinated him and driven his work for nearly 30 years.
Over a long and successful career, he has exhibited his work all over the world and is represented in many public and corporate collections, including the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, the Universities of Wales and Ulster, the Bank of England and the United Nations in New York.
Neil has been exhibiting with us since 2024, and this is his second show. The work is sophisticated and elegant. With great economy and immediacy, he captures the day breaking above the mute fields, the wind chopping the sea's surface in bright sunlight. The constant motion of shadows and water. While abstract, the work evokes the tang of salt from the damp wind and spray on your face, the tautness of sun scoured skin, the sun scrunching your eyes: The work is powerfully alive and spirited. By turns elegiac and spirited. Or perhaps both at once!
Neil's control of his medium is compelling and bracing. From heavy ground to the lightest dazzle, he makes each line and every little dab of colour sings and is essential. The work becomes allusive, expressive and subtle.