Interview with Digby Webster
chatting all things Art, Archibald and Life
“In the simplest possible terms, as a painter, Neil Tomkins faces the immemorial challenge. To confront an unlimited universe of opportunity and render a single image onto a two dimensional plane, through the medium of paint, via the limitations of his human form.”
- James Watkins
As part of Neil Tomkins most recent publication available from the online shop.
Painting Inner Worlds
by Oliver WagnerOctober 2019
"Tomkins’ iconography extends from impression to expression and juxtaposes mimetic detail with objectless abstraction. He frequently combines the formality of broken-up shapes with the painterly shimmering light of glistening colour fields in his pictures. "-Oliver Wagner
"This Dream Called Reality makes us believe Neil Tomkins when he tells us painting is his way of making sense of reality. His gestural strokes sharpen his vision"
-Sam Ramsden
Interview by Sam Ramsden
THIS DREAM CALLED REALITY
Neil Tomkins
in Portugal with
These art forms feel like they all create a “weavery” of understanding. I believe that in the alchemy of colour there exists a key.
ThisCouldBeYourColour
SYNERGY
a collaborative body of work by Neil Tomkins and Sid Teodoruk
Interview By Tommy Devy
"What does it mean when you have two artists playing that game of chess with the canvas."- Full Interview Here
"Neil Tomkins is an anomaly; that kind of laid back cool you’d imagine would be hitching a ride to a waterfall in the 60s."
-Jamie Preisz
NEIL TOMKINS
By James Watkins
"A modern-day alchemist holed up in his studio trying his best to make sense of himself, the world, and his place in it. He wasn’t pretending to have any real answers; painting wasn’t an answer, it was a distraction, therapy and an unanswerable question, like a mathematical equation that will never be solved."
- James Watkins
Full write up here
Collective Magazine
Rebels, Radicals, Renegades: Neil Tomkins (2009)
by Tania. H
"We journey through the physical landscape. Its effects on the self grow and form ideas over time; these ideas become a spirit of self and leave marks on the greater environment. Our feet leave prints. Those prints exist as memory and as history. That mark whether it continues to exist for a month or a lifetime becomes something organic. It is perceived, eaten and becomes entwined with the public. For it is owned by the public."