About me
“I live a life of quiet desperation and my studio is the refuge where I use painting to unravel life’s confusion.”
I am a visual artist for a reason, so please take into account that writing about myself and my art is likely to be the inexpressive trying to express the inexpressible. I’ll try to give an honest insight without, I hope, being too pretentious.
I live a life of quiet desperation and my studio is the refuge where I use painting to unravel my life’s confusion and, hopefully figure out why some experiences distress, intrigue, or sometimes amuse, me. My life presents me with emotional and intellectual challenges and in an attempt to cope, or make sense of them, I try and come up with imagery that explores, or expresses, them. Unlike many realist painters, I don’t see things and want to paint them. The resulting imagery is therefore rarely illustrative, it is almost always metaphorical.
My process is essentially intuitive. I generate images for me that try to encapsulate something - I don’t exactly know of what, and importantly I don’t analyse what it might be. It isn’t that I don’t evaluate possibilities - I spend days choosing exactly what will be included in each painting (the ‘where and how’) but the choices are made on a purely "like/dislike" basis.
I don’t know how what I do relates to contemporary art and frankly I don’t care. My creative process is essentially therapeutic (and unquestionably self-centred in that I do it for myself - not to please, or appease, others).
I can only hope that it may provide you with the same stimulation and enjoyment that the arts provide me. My experience of life, in common with almost everyone, is unremarkable. Generally we share the same concerns and I hope my paintings contribute some insight by reflecting the world in which we all live.
Neil Moore, 2024Ps. Should you be interested you can scroll down and see what I have been up to in the past.
Selected Exhibition History
2014
“Oneself as another” Royal West of England Academy, Bristol. Curated by Bo Lee Projects (Group show inc. Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon, Gavin Turk etc.)
“Human Clay Revisited” Ropewalk Gallery,(Group Ex.)
Warwickshire Open studios (Solo)
2013
“Juxtaposition” Creation fine Arts, Beverley (Solo)
Affordable Art Fair, Bo Lee Gallery, London (Group Ex.)
2012
“Severance” Eleven Gallery, Hull (Joint show with Anneka Reay)
East West Gallery, London (Group Ex.)
Warwick Open Studios (Solo)
2011
“Severance” Bo Lee Gallery, Bath (Joint show with Anneka Reay)
London Art Fair, Bo Lee Gallery (Group Ex.)
“West Midlands Open”, Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery
“Darkness to Light” The Octagon, Bo Lee Gallery, Bath (Group Ex.)
2010
“Life Paintings” Machado Gallery, Barford (Solo)
“Birmingham Open” Birmingham Museum and Art gallery (Mixed Ex.)
Art London, Bo Lee Gallery (Group Ex.)
Warwick Open Studios (Solo)
2009
“Don’t look now” Bo Lee Gallery, Bath (Solo)
Plus One Gallery, London (Group Ex.)
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London (Group Ex.)
2008
“The beauty of ugliness” East West Gallery, London (Solo)
Warwick Open Studios (Solo)
2007
Artifex gallery, Sutton Coldfield (Solo)
2006
Nomi Gallery, Leamington Spa (Solo)
Warwick Open Studios (Solo)
2005 East West Gallery, London (Solo)
2004 Warwick Open Studios (Solo)
2003 East West Gallery, London (Solo)
2002 Artifex Gallery, Sutton Coldfield (Solo)
2001 East West gallery, London (Solo)
2000 Schloss Agatenberg Gallery, Hamburg (Group Ex.)
1999 East West Gallery, London (Solo )
1997 Artifex Gallery, Sutton Coldfield (Solo)
1995 Erikson and Elins Gallery, San Francisco (Solo)
1994 East West Gallery, London (Solo)
1987 Nicholas Treadwell Gallery, Canterbury (Solo)
2024
“The imaginative poverty of total poverty”, Temperance (Solo)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
Rugby Open (Group Ex)
Artroom, Leamington Spa (Group show)
2023
“Temptations of the flesh”, Temperance (Solo)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
“Obsession”, O.P.O. Gallery, Scarborough (Group Ex.)
2022
“Discomfort zone”, Temperance (Solo)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery (Group)
2021
Broadway Arts Festival (Group Ex.)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
2020
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
“Talented Art Fair” (Solo) Truman Brewery, London
2019
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
“Prize” Royal Birmingham Society of Artists (Group)
“Drawings”, Temperance, Leamington Spa (Solo)
Rugby Art Gallery 'Open 2018' (Group)
2018
“Skin”, Artifex Gallery, Sutton Coldfield (Solo)
“Sympathetic Magic”,Slate Gallery, Leamington Spa (Solo)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
Little Buckland Gallery, Broadway (group)
2017
“The Answer?”, Deasil Gallery, Leamington Spa (Solo)
'Open', Leamington Spa Art Gallery (Group Ex.)
Rugby Art Gallery 'Open' (Group Ex.)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
2016
Leamington Spa Art Gallery "Spotlight" exhibition (Group Ex)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
2015
First Prize Winner “West Midlands Open”,
Leamington Spa Museum and Art Gallery (Mixed Ex.)
Warwickshire Open Studios (Solo)
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