Neil Taylor

Neil Taylor was born in Brisbane in 1953, and studied as an art teacher in Queensland. He has been exhibiting in Australia since 1975, and his work has won numerous awards and is held in art collections in Australia and overseas.

With superb technical skill, Neil paints in a super-realist style.Inspired by the beaches of Australia and America, Neil creates intimate, idealised views of sandy beaches, waterfalls, rockpools and ocean waves. He also focuses on bush landscapes in NSW, from the Northern Rivers to the Blue Mountains and further west.

Neil is a recipient of many prizes, including the Mortimore Art Prize, Mount Eyre Art Prize, Gosford Art Prize and Temora Art Prize. He has won the People’s and Viewer’s Choice award for numerous prizes, including the Calleen Art Prize (2013) and Mosman Art Prize (2015) and is regularly selected for major awards, such as the NSW Parliament Plein Air Painting Prize, Tattersall’s Club Landscape Prize, Calleen Art Award and Hadley’s Art Prize. He is also a 10-times finalist in the Archibald, Wynne and Sulman prizes exhibited at the Art Gallery of New South Wales.

Watch interview with Neil Taylor during a residency at Hill End, NSW