CHRIS NEALE landscape artist

Not one to go on about myself, I’ll keep this brief.

I love walking, exploring and understanding the physical geography that brought the landforms about as well as the integration of mankind into the land. I’m particularly fond of Wales and its culture. While my landscapes exclude our ill-considered blots on the land, I don’t look through rose coloured spectacles either. I look for the harmonious influence of mankind, where we have a strong bond to the land and our well-being depends on it, just as mine does now.

I paint in pastel and watercolour, far too impatient to wait for oil paint to dry. My images are sourced from sketches, my imagination and photography, but primarily from being there, often time and time again. I see the flow of walls, tracks and hills and assemble the compositions to take the viewers eye on a tour around the painting, maybe passing or ending at a house. Most of my work has the influence of mankind stamped upon it. The land somehow seems unfriendly, inhospitable without it.