Neil Butterfield – portfolio

Contact the artist

https://www.neilbutterfieldART.co.uk
07800 658859
neilb0201at gmail.com

Exhibition information

I have done various things, mainly in education and publishing, but have always painted.

However, it is only during the recent years that I have been able to give it a significant amount of time. This has enabled me to do a lot more painting but, much more importantly, it has given me the opportunity to think about what I am doing and why I am doing it. This internal debate means that my work frequently changes direction. Whether this is a virtue, I am not sure.

If there is any consistency in my work, it may be in two things: the idea of paintings as metaphors for the way we shape our experience of the world (rather than as any kind of visual record) and, more obviously, a thing about colour. For Paul Klee, one of my art heroes, it was a visit to Tunisia that did it. ‘I have found colour’, he said,’ it has hold of me’. For me it was India and in particular Rajasthan.

If people take anything away from my a paintings, I hope it is this: that they are uplifting  and a reminder of just how beautiful life is on this planet.