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Working either from quick sketches or in his studio from memory, Neil uses landscape, still life or interiors as the source of his work. Rather than trying to produce a realistic or literal image of the place he has chosen, his aim is to produce a picture with a strong overall composition. The paintings often go through numerous and lengthy changes to achieve this.
Using a restricted palette of a few main colours, as his work has become more abstract, these have morphed from more sombre, tonal ones to a more vibrant range of reds, orange, yellow, blues, greens and black. His current work uses geometric colour block shapes to explore balance and contrast within a frame. Nonetheless, there remains reference to landscape and place within these abstract images.
Paintings say different things to different people but the titles may help as a starting point for understanding the work.