Bill Neill, a native Missourian and long-time Nashville resident, is a successful commercial real estate broker. In addition, his passion for painting was sparked in recent years by a Christmas gift of watercolor paints and brushes. Primarily a self-trained artist, he is fearless about working in new ways with mixed media. He prefers large unstretched raw canvas, overlaying it with gauze cloth and a variety of pigments—from acrylics and oils to oil sticks and common housepaints. He claims Rothko, Albers and Matisse as his artistic models. The current canvases are innovative in style and materials. He is intent on establishing a sense of place with the texture of movement, mirroring the natural and urban worlds we know today. His abstract work is progressing into portraying natural subject matter with his new series on “Poppies.”
