About

Neill Fearnley’s recent paintings are a continuation of his focus of conveying on the canvas an instant of stream of consciousness. Through a collage process, fragments of text from various surfaces (newspapers, literature, poetry, film, music) are brought together to create the ground. Images juxtapose geometric abstraction (often referencing architecture) with trees, birds, and plants and other aspects of the natural environment. The paintings evoke an essential landscape of time, place, and memory.

Neill Fearnley was born in Ithaca, New York in 1949; he lives in Byfield, Massachusetts. He studied at Cornell University, the University of New Mexico, and Skidmore College. He has had multiple solo exhibitions at Nielsen Gallery  and Mario Diacono Gallery. Fearnley has been in a number of group exhibitions, including “Settings” at the DeCordova Museum and "American Abstraction Since the 1960s” at The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. His work is include in the following collections: the DeCordova Museum,the Estabrook Foundation, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.