Neal Smith-Willow Art Collections
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Visions
Mexico
Landscape
The Figure
Travels
Coastal
Dance
Portrait
Costa Rica
Pencil and charcoal
Italy
Photography
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Artwork by Neal Smith-Willow
Each image may be purchased as a canvas print, framed print, metal print, and more! Every purchase comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Reflections of Andrea by Neal Smith-Willow
Apalachicola Waterfront by Neal Smith-Willow
Amish by Neal Smith-Willow
Priano by Neal Smith-Willow
Cocina Beach 1 by Neal Smith-Willow
Day's End by Neal Smith-Willow
Positano by Neal Smith-Willow
Rose for Sue by Neal Smith-Willow
Encounter Curacao by Neal Smith-Willow
Rain Off Shotgun Beach by Neal Smith-Willow
Morning Bath by Neal Smith-Willow
September by Neal Smith-Willow
Runamee Das by Neal Smith-Willow
Flamingo by Neal Smith-Willow
Antonia by Neal Smith-Willow
Hombre de Cestas by Neal Smith-Willow
Laughing Man by Neal Smith-Willow
Girl from The North Country by Neal Smith-Willow
Juliette by Neal Smith-Willow
Rose by Neal Smith-Willow
Pequena by Neal Smith-Willow
Mayan by Neal Smith-Willow
Dixie Theater by Neal Smith-Willow
Palms at Tate's Hell Swamp by Neal Smith-Willow
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About 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.