Westminster View – Original

Neil Dawson – Westminster View – Original.

Neil Dawson – Westminster View – Original. Hand Signed

Background

Neil always loved art as a child and while growing up. Subsequently, he continued his formal artistic education at Central Saint Martin’s College in London. Additionally, he now continues to learn on a daily basis in his studio. The Foundation Course was a very interesting and enjoyable year even though I struggled with some aspects of the course and, at the time, it put me off pursuing a career in art. I had enjoyed the freedom, spontaneity and escapism of painting and the way I could lose myself in the creative process. I did not know how to talk about my work and to an extent I did not want to – I would rather people make their own mind up and take what they want from my work rather than me telling them what they should be thinking and seeing. Discussing, dissecting and, to an extent, justifying what I was doing just seemed alien and troubling to me.

Travel

Undoubtedly, it was an extended period of travel that rekindled his loved of art. Moreover, the constant exposure and time to immerse in and appreciate beautiful, enchanting, strange, evocative, provocative and bewildering environments.
Particularly, whilst travelling, his camera was his artistic outlet as he would capture elements of his surroundings. Importantly on arriving home he dusted off the palette and paints in an attempt to recapture some of the sights and feelings from my time abroad.

Ideas and Inspiration

As a very visual person his ideas tend to come from his surroundings. In everyday life – flicking through papers, watching TV, walking around town – images, compositions and colours can trigger chain reactions, sparking ideas for future paintings. Always finding torn out references from magazines or scraps of paper with notes and sketches made in moments of excitement and inspiration days or weeks ago, that serve as starting points for new work.
A great deal of inspiration comes from the development and evolution of his own work Moreover, a constant learning curve with his painting
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