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About Neal Smith-Willow

Neal Smith-Willow I am an artist working in oils, pastels and watercolors in a representational manner. I paint from a narrative perspective. I paint from my experiences. The premise of my work of is to record my experiences - filtered through sight, smell, and touch - to create images of fleeting moments so that they may remain.
Painterly realism strikes me as the best vehicle for that effort, the kind offered by Edgar Degas, Thomas Eakins, and Singer Sargent among many. I seek out the individuals and places of my times to put to canvas.
In that respect I admire the vision of the New York Ashcan movement at the beginning of the 20th century. A revolution in American art, it produced an unprecedented vision of the working people in Manhattan as well as the pastimes of the middle class. The Ashcan artists did not stay cutting edge for long, as the wave of abstract art swept away their American-bred realism.
Today the genre of painterly realism, as in the past, invariably includes the environments that sensually surrounded the artist with the new.
I search for those moments as I move about, storing them to accommodate my muse. I want to be an interpreter, through painterly depictions of memory for impressions of place. This may open a window that invites the viewer to glimpse a moment that was, now washed away by the current of time. My paintings have become a distilled narrative attempting to connect to the viewer that sense of a moment and its inevitable passing.
Doing the the work makes me feel like a child involved with a toy and a man loyal to his dreams.