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Brendan Neiland...Artist
Brendan was keeper of The Royal Academy Schools for two years and enjoys continued success as a painter and printmaker.
His subject is the cityscape, an environment Brendan feels is rich in potentiality, and yet often neglected. He sites the work of fernand Leger, who was the first artist to use the awkward contemporary environment, as a key to inspiration.
Brendan's paintings are both figurative relating to the city, and abstract in their structure reflection of light and modulated colour.
Technique is fundamental to his work ,which ensures a fusion of method and imagery. His research leads to a series of drawings that formulate and define the imagery. These drawings then become the templates or masks through which the paintings are sprayed. In this way he can build layers of glazing, an uninterrupted surface,save for changes in hue tone and structure.
During his extensive travels around Europe, Brendan has studied closely the interiors of Vermeer in Amsterdam, the extravagance of Gaudi in Barcelona, as well as the black intensity of Goya in Madrid. These influences together with a preoccupation for the industrial aspects of Britain, help him in encouraging people to reappraise their environments and feel a greater sense of involvement in them.
See below for Limited Edition Prints by Brendan Neiland |
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