NEIL MURISON R.W.A. (born
1930)
“White Figure”. Oil on
Canvas. 20” x 18”
Signed & dated ’64
(1964)
Also signed & titled on
reverse
Provenance: The Artist’s Studio IMAGE
“Headland”
Oil Painting on Board. 32” x
40”. Signed. Painted circa 1968
Provenance: The Artist’s
Studio IMAGE
Neil Murison, painter and teacher, was born in Bath, Somerset and attended the West of
England College of Art in Bristol, where he settled. He taught at Queen Elizabeth’s Hospital School for nine years and was
course co-ordinator for the Department of Foundation studies at Bristol
Polytechnic until 1987. He became a
Member of the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours- in 1979, being appointed
Director of the Academy’s New Gallery in 2002.
He had a long series of solo shows, including Bear Lane Gallery, Oxford from 1963; Oxford Gallery
from 1970; and Park Street Gallery, Bristol from 1978. Later ones include Albany Gallery, Cardiff in 1991 and Toll House
Gallery, Cleveden in 2001. The Bank of America, London and Amsterdam; Museum of
Modern Art, Skopje and Oxford and Bath Universities hold examples of his work
as well numerous education authorities.
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