| Neale Howells was born in 1965 in Neath, South Wales and trained at Bath College of Art, he now works in an abandoned industrial unit in Port Talbot. Having the dubious honour of having two exhibitions closed by the council before the opening night, Howells has gradually established his name as a painter and as an outspoken critic of the Welsh cultural establishment. The work appears to be a stream of consciousness with words and images flowing freely onto the canvas in a seemingly chaotic manner. |
There is a mesmerising quality to the daubed layers of paint, the scratched drawings, the doodled words, the arcing marks of an aerosol which brings a force and energy to the united whole. These paintings can develop into immense compositions of up to 20 feet in length and 10 to 15 feet in height a scale ideally suited to the architecture of the gallery. |
