Recently at a charity event for Mercy High School in Northern California, JL Galleries and Jane Flynn donated a Neal Adams painting. This small painting of a flower raised over $850- for the school. JL Galleries would like to thank the buyer and Jane Flynn for their participation in helping the students of Mercy High. It is a pleasure to help out while spreading good art around the world.
Add comment April 1st, 2008
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JL Galleries is excited to offer the art of Neal Adams. Originally from England, Neal is living in Bali, Indonesia with his wife and young son. | |
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| His subject matter is often the beauty and importance of nature and our connections to these natural miracles. Recently, Neal Adams has developed a new technique using gold and silver leaf that is both avant-garde and commercially desirable. This idea of painting with actual gold and silver is not new. It was made most famous by Gustav Klimpt who used it in a decorative manner. Neal is pioneering the use of these mediums with paint as backlighting for the subject matter. His glimmering backgrounds are abstract masterpieces in their own right with reflective color transformations constantly evolving due to light and angle. This creates a great deal of life that moves through each of Neal’s pieces. | ||
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Bird of Paradise |
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Padang Bai Tree |
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| At the JL Galleries “An evening of art,” Neal Adams was the biggest seller and conversation piece. Appearently we didn’t unveil his work a minute to soon. He sold 10 of 11 paintings for a beautiful followup to his sold out show in Jakarta earlier this year. Neal Adams Gallery
Some of the other new artists making a commotion were Spauldero, Pranoto and Tantri featured below. |
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Not enough art from this trio. Everyone wanted to see more by these newly represented painters. We had only one testpiece by each of the three and could have sold each multiple times over. Spauldero’s Badut Pantai (oil on canvas), Pranoto’s ‘Girls’ (oil on canvas), and Tantrix’s beautiful abstraction of colors. | |
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Badut Pantai |
Girls - Pranoto |
Tantri |
| More to come from all these artists and more as JL Galleries looks forward to 2008 after an exciting year of art! | ||
January 6th, 2008
Neal and I met through a mutual friend in Ubud, Bali, Indonesia. He had invited both of us over to look at his most recent foray onto the canvas and after looking at the painting Neal and I had the exact same comment. We found this interesting and immediately gave each other a bit of credibility. Later Neal and I bumped into each other at a restaurant where we laughed, started talking art and made theoretical plans for me to see his work. Shortly later at his neighbor’s birthday party we slipped away and looked at the painting he was currently working on. I was obviously impressed and the rest is shall we say history.
December 7th, 2006
Neal Adams (London, 1968)
Neal Adams showed a talent for drawing from a very young age. After passing his examinations in Art he studied painting with Professor James Turner of the (Wimbledon School of Art, London). Mr. Adams continued to paint with traditional oils and successfully sold his works at exhibitions in Piccadilly (London), Forest Gallery (Guilford) also submitting works to The Mall Galleries (London). This led to a commendation from The Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Mr. Adams moved to Bali in 2001 to experiment with mediums other than oil paint and to discover the special energy that has inspired so many European artists before him. Neal Adams has made his own discovery; fusing traditional painting with gold leaf and mixed media. The gold leaf is used by the Balinese for decorating their temples and Neal has invented a way to use the gold to represent the dramatic effect of light. When observing the work from side to side the painting will show light radiating from the surface, creating a unique viewpoint from every angle.
The works between 2006 and 2007 were shown in a solo exhibition in Jakarta Indonesia sponsored by Prestige magazine. This exhibition was a sell out and led to a painting being purchased and hung in the presidential home.
Also Neal’s paintings are regularly shown by Master Piece Auction House with a 100% success and are fetching higher and higher prices.
June 15th, 2006
| Welcome to the imagination of Neal Adams | ||
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January 7th, 2006
