Nick
Macneil
Education
2017-2018- Wimbledon College of Art - MA Fine Art Painting
2011-2014- Wimbledon College of Art - BA Fine Art Painting
2010-2011- Foundation Diploma Art and Design - Richmond Upon Thames College
Exhibitions
2023- "Homecoming" Sothebys London
2023- "Giving in Unity" Romero House, London
2019- "All staff show" Daniels spectrum, Toronto Canada
2019- "Utopia Through Nostalgia" The Koppel Project, London
2018- "SSA Annual exhibition", The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
2018- "62 Hands", Lewisham Arthouse, London
2017- "Art Yellow Book", CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2016- "but not simpler", Espacio Gallery, Bethnal Green, London
2015- "Pure Painting", Bar Gallery, Wilsden, London
2014- Wimbledon College of Arts Undergraduate Show, London
2014- "Thames Tower Residency", Hammersmith, London
2013- "Hans Brinker Hotel exhibition", Amsterdam, Holland
2013- "I threw it on the ground", Bahavan Gallery, West Kensington, London
Published art work
Art Yellow Book: Number 3, January 2017
Awards
Nominated for the Prunella Clough Painting Award 2013
Nominated for the Hans Brinker Hotel Exhibition 2013
About the Artist.
My approach to painting is immediacy, where I want all the information to be taken in at once. lightness and shadow can be approached in various ways, for me it is about using colour and tone to suggest these elements. I like to think of refractions and reflections, as little disturbances that disjoint continuity whether it's in water, glass or a mirage above a flame. I try to convey these through streaks of coloured light or 'droplets' that spread across the surface, Disrupting the darker gestural organic forms.
Almost all of my recent paintings are in a landscape format, with suggestions of atmosphere, and organic terrain. I spend a lot of time looking at clouds at various times of the day, as well as the surrounding environment which can be natural or artificial.
Overall I aim for the paintings to feel light, So I set out to ‘drop the dead weight’ in a sense so they don’t feel too grounded or heavy.