Neil Hicks - contemporary australian painter

From his early years as a scenic artist, painting sets for films, theme parks and theatre, to his study years at the National Art School and College of Fine Art , Neil has established himself as a force in contemporary Australian Painting.
In the Modern tradition, Neil takes external stimuli and re interprets them as intimate interiors.
Alternately, Neil will take personal data and reconstruct them into objective landscapes.
His attempts to reconcile his surroundings with a sense of identity lead the work into complex random form without crowding it with information.
The tactile finish lends the work a sense of immediacy despite the subtle suggestions of antiquity. The paintings bristle with a type of anxious inertia, allowing the eyes to scuttle across the activated surface.