NEIL MCLEOD

THE ARTIST

NEIL MCLEOD

Neil is a painter and writer based in Falmouth, Cornwall. He has exhibited his work in the UK and abroad, including in the RWA Annual Open Exhibition, in Thessaloniki, Greece, The Hague, Netherlands, and New York. More recently he has exhibited his paintings at Porthmeor Studios in St Ives and Enys House, Penryn, Cornwall. For over 25 years he taught at some of the UK’s leading art schools, including the Glasgow School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art and Falmouth University. He has a 1st Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art, a Masters in Design from Edinburgh College of Art and a PhD from Glasgow University.

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Before entering the arts Neil trained and worked as a journalist. Neil works in oils and paints very intuitively; half felt and half remembered images emerge through a series of iterations. Each painting is a glimpse of a narrative, whether referencing memories from childhood, movies and television, a walk in the countryside. Underpinning the work is a preoccupation with psychology and it’s original meaning ‘to attend to the soul’. Neil draws on the work of Carl Jung and Maria-Louise von Franz, particularly in relation to the process of individuation and the symbolism of alchemy and archetypes.