UK artists, painters and makers like Neil McBride, often come from commercial art backgrounds such as advertising and graphics often working as art directors.
This means you will find them to be disciplined and professional in their methods and work ethic.
Conceptual thinking is the norm for UK artists like these so conceptual art often forms a large part of their output.
At the other end of the spectrum serious UK art collectors, like you, may find an early body of work from these artists can be too overtly commercial in subject & style and too shallow conceptually to be taken seriously.
The reason for this is that the artist has the task of shaking off the years of working under pressure to make their art pay in the applied arts field. It can take years for an artist to alter their mindset from producing work for immediate profit to producing work of greater depth for the long term.
This has certainly been the case for Neil McBride who's commercial work has gradually given way to a sincere effort to produce more challenging artwork of real substance and artistic merit. We hope you will agree.
We all have to eat of course. You will find many original paintings, inspired by the UK, for sale in the gallery pages.
Please email Neil if you have any feedback (He has broad shoulders).
Enjoy your visit.
