All entries for Tuesday 02 March 2010

Neil Moore Artist (Paintings)

Writing about web page http://www.neilmoore.co.uk/

I just thought I would jot down a few of my thoughts about the work of Neil Moore, an artist based in Leamington Spa who constructs work with a haunting, hyper-real feel that explain, (yet further confuse me!) perspectives on life, birth, womanhood, and more recently human interactions with elements and the weather. Its difficult to describe, but fascinating in its quality. Moore’s work has been found in rock star houses, most notably of the Rolling Stone, much is in private collections, but yet even more is being exhibited or stored, waiting for people to fall in love with. In fact some of his best work is yet to be exhibited, so shy is Moore of swamping the London Galleries. Often investors are so taken with his work, they insist on buying before exhibition. I would always say to people to contact him direct if they like his work – because its best to peg it in its final stages than wait until the gallery slots come up – because the best ones don’t ever make it through that route.
I’ll aim to put some images here of paintings I particularly like, but for the moment here is the website http://www.neilmoore.co.uk/

Its difficult to explain how good these paintings are on the internet – the real one of Doll, 2008 (below) for example is huge, striking, superbly detailed and realistic and much more thought-provoking than the image below suggests.. but here it is in any case…

This is one that intrigues me – its kind of threatening, but kind of nice and depicts a situation we’ve all been in.. haven’t we?!?! One where a girls thinks that apeing male sexuality is all about dominance and submission (too much Cosmopolitan I fear!) .. that and its a fun pictrure that doesn’t suggest rape and abuse, but would were it a man on top (oh how positive the image of woman is today!)

Jeremy Ireland : 02 Mar 2010 11:31 |  Tags: Art Artist Collectable Collection Contemporary Expensive Figurative Investment Painter Realist Rolling Stones |  Comments (0) |  Close comments |  Report a problem