We love the work of Neil Canning. Here’s what he says…

“Gestural abstraction in the sweeps and swathes of thick, smudged and glazed patches of colour often have an urgent, expressive quality. These strokes of colour are not only evident of the action of the material on canvas, but the paint appears to evoke the pictorial techniques used by artists to describe the powerful aspects of the natural world and its weather systems which we can find in the epic narrative paintings of the nineteenth century. In a relatively small painting such as Shine 2006 there seems to be a response to the scale, dynamics and textures of the elements encompassed in what is, ostensibly, an image brought into being through intuitive abstraction.”