The Great Atlantic Galleries

Neil Davies
"off the beaten track"

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Heading for Lower Porthmeor
oil on board 121 x 148cm SOLD

Neil Davies is rapidly emerging as a leading landscape artist in the South West. His semi-abstract oil paintings and charcoal drawings of the moorlands and coastal tracts around his West Cornwall home have attracted an ever growing band of admirers and collectors who eagerly await and anticipate exhibitions of new work. Davies has both the brush and the eye for the dramatically changing patterns of weather that batter and bless these Western parts and a technique that captures these fleeting events in paint, for posterity.

After spending his early childhood in a small fishing village in Scotland, Neil moved south to study at Farnham School of Art. After graduation, there followed a lengthy stay in Florence before lecturing at Guildford School of Art and West Surrey College of Art.

It was whilst teaching, that Neil first became fascinated with the nature of the Penwith landscape which still forms the basis of his inspiration today. He now paints full time, working from his studio on the north Penwith coast near St Ives. Ever restless, Davies makes forays, young family in tow, to some of the other wild areas of the British Isles - parts of Snowdonia and the Scottish Highlands and Islands have all had the Davies treatment.

Paintings and drawings - some quite large - now adorn sitting rooms, offices and public spaces throughout the land. Neil Davies is definitely one to watch.

Michael Jay, Falmouth, 2008

“I am intuitively drawn to the more remote areas of the countryside, where human presence is very little in evidence. These are wild places where the elemental forces shape the landscape, sweeping it with storms, light and winds.

“This collection of paintings and drawings depicts my intimacy with the wild North Coast of Penwith and also includes images of the West Coast and Islands of Scotland. Many of the paintings show a lonely dwelling. These dots of human habitation arouse my curiosity - who lives in these dwellings miles from anywhere, sometimes in the bleakest of landscapes? What is life like for them?

“My purpose is to convey a sense of the isolation and of living with nature at its most primordial and to lead those who view these paintings to become these inhabitants for just a few minutes.”

Neil Davies, Penwith. June 2008

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