Neil Moore

Neill Moore is a visual artist who embraces painting as a deeply personal and intuitive process, one that helps him make sense of the emotional and intellectual complexities of his life. Acknowledging that writing about his work often feels like the inexpressive trying to express the inexpressible, he nonetheless offers a candid perspective on his creative motivations.

Moore describes his studio as a refuge from a life of quiet desperation. It is within this space that he seeks to unravel his confusion and explore the reasons behind his emotional responses, whether they be distress, curiosity, or amusement. Rather than observing the world and reproducing it through a realist lens, Moore works in metaphor. His paintings are not illustrative depictions but symbolic representations, constructed to express intangible experiences and internal states.

His process is led by intuition rather than concept. While he dedicates significant time to selecting the precise elements that make up each work, his decisions are based not on analysis but on a fundamental like/dislike response. He is not concerned with interpreting or rationalising the content of his imagery; nor does he position his work within the context of contemporary art discourse. Instead, Moore’s practice is inherently therapeutic, unapologetically self-centred in the sense that it exists to satisfy an internal need rather than external expectations.

Despite this inward focus, Moore hopes that his paintings resonate with others. He acknowledges that his own life, like most, is unremarkable in its particulars but also that we all share similar concerns, doubts, and desires. Through his work, he aims to offer a visual language that reflects the shared complexities of human experience, and perhaps provides viewers with the same kind of stimulation and enjoyment that he finds in the arts.