Neil Pittaway NEAC | New English Art Club

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Castlerigg, Cumbria
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About Neil Pittaway NEAC

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Biography

Artist's Statement

Neil Pittaway’s works reflect ideas from East and Western sources and perspectives such as Anglo-European heritage, transatlantic connections, Asian landscapes, gothic revival architecture, urbanness, satire, illustration and narrative. His work incorporates and explores these identities through direct and indirect observation creating complex and seemingly agoraphobic, perspective spaces; a labyrinth, which reflects the built and natural environments and echoes the monumental histories that make up our collective European and International identities, our heritage.

Method of Working

Neil’s drawings, paintings and prints are developed from extensive research and sketches produced from direct and indirect observation. He uses many different skills, methods, techniques and processes to create richly layered tapestries on the pictures’ surfaces. His drawings and etchings employ a detailed network of line, bitten deep into copper plate or drawn using traditional dip pen and ink whilst his paintings employ more spontaneous yet complex layered marks drawing on the luminous qualities of the paint’s pigments.

Everywhere Neil travels he works directly from the subject using sketchbooks to record a journey; in recent years this has included trekking extensively in the Nepal Himalayas. These records are then used directly and indirectly to create finished works that capture the essences of time and place.

Biographical Details

2004-05 University of Huddersfield, Post-Graduate Certificate in Education

2001 Contributor, The Great Artists series, Tim Marlow, Channel 5 Television

1998-2001 Royal Academy Schools, London Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts Post-Graduate Diploma in Fine Art

1996-98 University of Bradford, MA Printmaking

1995 D. H. Lawrence Museum Commission1992-96 Cheltenham School of Art, BA Hons Painting

Society Memberships

New English Art Club

Other Society Memberships

Royal Watercolour Society (RWS)

Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE)

Leeds Fine Artists, Yorkshire

Associate Member of the Alpine Club, London

Royal Academy Schools, Royal Academy of Arts Alumni Association.

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

1995 University of Seville, Spain, Erasmus travel Scholarship

1999 The British Institution Prize for Drawing, Royal Academy of Arts, London

1998 Printmaking Prize, Bradford Open, Cartwright Hall, Bradford

2000 John Purcell Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2000 Celia Walker Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2000 The Gwen May RE Prize, National Print Exhibition, London

2000 The Joseph Webb Prize, National Print Exhibition, London

2001 Whatman International Papers Award, National Print Exhibition, London

2001 The British Institution Prize for Printmaking, Royal Academy of Arts, London

2001 The Excellence in Drawing Award, The Arts Club, Mayfair, London

2001 The New Academy Gallery Commission Award, RWS Open, London

2001 The John Smith Award, RWS 21st Century Watercolour RWS Open

2007 The Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Vivien Leigh Bequest Printmaking Prize

2008 The Judges Choice Prize A1 Northern Open, Richmond, Yorkshire.

Exhibitions

New English Art Club Annual Exhibition 2017

Other exhibitions

2016 Big Draw, It’s our World Exhibition and Auction, Christies, Mayfair, London

2015 Solo Visual Histories, Dean Clough Arts, Halifax,- Yorkshire

2015 Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition (and in previous years)

2014 Rabley Sketchbook prize and exhibition

2012 A year in the life of the Royal Albert Hall, Royal Albert Hall London (Image reproduced on the cover of their calendar

2011 International Watercolour Touring Exhibition, Chung-Shan National Gallery Taipei, Taiwan, Robeson Gallery, The Penn State University and Carrollton Cultural Arts Centre, U.S.A.

2009 LIoyd’s TSB Journeys, Touring show throughout the UK including Chatsworth House, Derbyshire

2007 Ten Days in Aurangabad, Touring show in Mumbai and London

Publications

2015 'Watercolour Secrets' (Contributor)

2009 'Printmakers Secrets' (Contributor)

2006 'Watercolour Masters, Then and Now' (Contributor)

2002 'London in Poetry and Prose' (Drawings featured) Edited by Anna Adams

Commissions

Approach to Commissions:

Neil undertakes landscape based commissions including complex architectural, heritage, historical, cultural, city and natural landscape based work. These may be drawing in dip pen and ink or painting in watercolour, acrylic or mixed media work. He is happy to work to many different scales and sizes from very large to small creating works individually and or as part of a series to compliment both public and private spaces.

Notable Commissions:

RAF Air Cadets

D.H. Lawrence Museum

Enitharmon Press