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WALLY FINDLAY GALLERIES
CHARLES NEAL

A Sense of Place - Evolved Perception

Every place or space has a personal association wherein lives are created, formed and experienced. This can be by means of
identity, history, pride or joy. Paintings which are particularly representational in form, and therefore relate directly to our sur-
roundings, can be a means to encapsulate our feelings for a place by the usage of visual language.

The act of painting, being a unique process of relating to, and expressing the world and its many facets, using one’s own subjective
perception, can result in inducing enquiry and a search for further developing and refining the way to portray subject matter.

As one proceeds through life, values, priorities and perceptions are ever changing and evolving. A career in painting promotes
and encourages an inner need to progress through changes in style, treatment and subject matter. The work therefore becomes
a marker relating to the painter’s act of seeing.

Each motif is discovered and emotionally experienced, internalized and expressed through an inner creative dialogue, where
accumulated perception and valuation create a unique visual poetic language. The collective output of a life’s work represents
the personal artistic journey.

The world with its inherent beauty is there to be enjoyed, admired and held in reverence. Paintings can provide the viewer with
a mirror to their inner perceptions and emotional expression and also become a vehicle to dream and to go beyond the self and
the familiar.

Art in general can be a testament to living and an affirmation of what we are about, also a means to articulate our feelings
through external forms of artistic creation. We all have a primitive need to convey and share our emotions about ourselves, our
associations, responses to the world and the people surrounding us.

Charles Neal
Gloucestershire 2013