Born in Wales, Neil displayed an early natural talent for modelling, gravitating to wildlife. However, pursuing a career in mental healthcare, serving both as a clinician and senior manager, it wasn’t until around 2009 he felt compelled to sculpt. Subsequently his sculptures attracted multiple awards, including winning the sculpture category at The David Shepherd Foundation, Wildlife Artist of The Year. He is an Honorary Fellow at The Wildlife Art Society International. Neil’s work is exhibited in Italy and Greece and across the UK with a range of galleries and wildlife art societies.

Fascinated with wildlife and its biodiversity, Neil the uses the Mesopotamian cultural inception of cuneiform writing as a device to analog our imperative to transform and adapt. Where pictographic animal illustrations on clay tablets – used as a means of communication – transitioned into abstract forms as cuneiform characters to form word-concepts. Neil imagines cuneiform tablets as moulds, employing the characters (negative voids) to cast positive triangular versions. These characters are assembled as recognisable animal representations on the cusp of segmenting into cuneiform characters. His sculptures encapsulate this transformative-adaptation as it grasps contemporary expression.

“Like many children I enjoyed anthropomorphic allegories along with the visceral meditative experience of transfiguring clay into animal models, and still do. I’m enthralled by wildlife’s sheer diversity, their super-powers, and astounding range of resilient adaptation to ever challenging environments. This fascination for me extends to our individual and collective encounters with this necessity to adapt, and to continuously recreate ourselves in bio-psycho-socially impermanent landscapes.”

Selected Exhibitions
2023 October 14th -22nd (participating artist) XIV Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2022 November 3rd – 6th Thessaloniki International Art Fair, HELEXPO Exhibition Centre, Greece
2022 August 26th – 3rd September, Exhibition Contemporary Art Galleria Il Leone “Dislivello”, Rome, Italy
2022 May 7th – 21st Chili Art Gallery, Athens, Greece
2022 March 28th – June 5th Exhibition Contemporary Art Galleria Il Leone “Dislivello”, Rome, Italy
2022 March 5th – 11th Group Exhibition, Galleria Musee Bellini, 50124 Firenze, Florence, Italy 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 Yr Oriel Newport, Pembrokeshire, Wales UK
2022, Ivy House Gallery, Llandeilo, Wales UK
2022 Oriel Llanteglos, Llanteglos Estate, Llanteg, Pembrokeshire, Wales UK
2019 Artist in Residence, Nature in Art Gallery & Museum, Gloucester
2017 Charlfred Fine Art, St John’s Wood Hight Street, London, England UK
2017 Fishguard Arts Society Winter Exhibition, Pembrokeshire Wales,
2017, 2018, 2019 Oriel Mimosa Gallery, Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire, Wales UK