Neil's expressive landscape paintings are the result of his fascination with the play of light over this disparate landscape of ours.

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Neil McBride was born in Yorkshire on 25 October (same date as Picasso but a few years apart, which is quite fortunate because Picasso is dead and Neil McBride is very much alive).

Most of Neil's pictures show a raw passion for colour and are predominately abstract expressionist colour fields coupled with a minimalist use of figurative references; 3 sheep (each with 3 legs) or architectural references often giving a hint of scale and nothing more. A further dimension is added by the use of tactile impasto textures and subtle colour glazes. Many people viewing these pictures for the first time are compelled to 'read' the surface of the paintings like a blind person reading Braille.

Neil is now developing an interest in people's relationships with each other within urban spaces and relationships between people and those same spaces. ENOUGH! Please look at the pictures and see for yourself. Best leave the prose to the critics.

Background

Neil has exhibited in open art shows and commercial galleries in Yorkshire, Scotland and Cumbria. Currently at Look Gallery, Helmsley, Castlegate Gallery Knaresborough and Phoenix Gallery, Richmond

As an art college trained advertising and graphic designer, Neil has worked for many years in Manchester, Leeds, London and York; his formative years as an art student were spent in North Yorkshire. Now, having made his home here, he has realised a young lad's ambition and is actively involved in exhibiting locally. Also a talented draughtsman, Neil is in talks with the Arts Development Officer for Hambleton to form a life-drawing group in Easingwold.

If you are excited by colour and appreciate a passionate approach to painting then you need look no further than Neil McBride.

STOP PRESS!

Neil is currently lokoing for an experienced Life Model for the life drawing group he is organising in Easingwold for Wednesday evenings, beginning April 2006. If you're interested, contact Neil through one of the methods listed below.

Neil McBride