Neil Rogers

My art education started when I attended Moseley School of Art in Birmingham at the tender age of thirteen and continued at Birmingham College of Art where I trained in Fine Art, but specialised for two years in Graphic Design although with a strong illustrative leaning.

During my subsequent career I have been variously an art editor for a motoring magazine, a packaging designer, a senior art director for a cosmetic company, and a senior art director working for a sales promotion company. These posts were based either in Birmingham, Northampton or latterly in London. I had very little time or energy to devote to painting throughout my full time employment.

Since moving to Devon I have carried on designing and illustrating, for book publishers and magazines, but now with more time to devote to Fine Art.

My subject matter in Fine Art has been many and various including figurative painting, semi abstract, abstract, sculpture and installations, each genre using various media. I feel my background brings with it a different discipline to the medium of fine art than other more traditionally inspired painters, mainly in the use of bold graphic composition.

I have also experimented with three dimensional forms on paintings and by juxtaposing disparate elements give them a surreal quality. I have numerous ideas for painting, sculpture etc and so do not concentrate on any one subject or theme which I would personally find unfulfilling. My paintings have been exhibited in galleries in East Devon, South West Academy Devon and in London.

Neil Rogers (left) with his very individual piece entitled ‘Occasional Table’, which has been on display at the Exmouth Art Group Summer Exhibition, purchased by John Excell (right) an avid collector of things unusual

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