Introduction
Hello and welcome to my website. I seek to tell stories in my work, capturing a moment of time. They're often stories about pain and difficulties - a lament for our fragile mortality. Many of the paintings are also autobiographical. Previous commissions include the award-winning writer Billy Ivory. I'm currently working with the Holgate School and Creative Partnerships on a portrait project.

Neil is on Facebook and Myspace.

I'm showed some paintings at The Art Organisation on Station Street in Nottingham. The work was there until June 4.

In March 2007 I had an exhibition at the Alley Cafe in Nottingham. Read the review published on the website of A-N Magazine.

I featured in this March's Leftlion magazine and the Evening Post. Go to the press section to read the clippings...

If you are a local artist or represent a Nottinghamshire gallery, please submit your website details to my links page.

Praise for my work...

"[Neil's] paintings have a strong sense of emotion, narrative and personality."
Stephen Shankland (BP Portrait Award winner 2004)

"The portraits are brilliant. Really unflinching. [Losing Mel] is stunning. Like a Raymond Carver story on canvas; so much life encapsulated in a tiny space... I feel a little in awe."
Billy Ivory (Writer of A Thing Called Love, BBC, 2005)

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Couldn't have put it better myself...

"My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
John Lennon

"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."
Pablo Picasso

"My work is purely autobiographical. It is about myself and my surroundings. I work from people that interest me and that I care about, in rooms that I know."
Lucien Freud

"I do hope I play out the contradictions that I feel, all the anxieties and dilemmas. If they're there in the work, then that's brilliant."
Jenny Saville