Neil Mawdsley

Artist & Teacher

Neil Mawdsley is a passionate artist with many sea-themed paintings. With extensive experience in both creation and teaching, he shares his knowledge through engaging art lessons and maintains a personal diary that offers insight into his creative journey.

My home town as a child was Oldham Lancashire and my family lived in a dark end terrace house overlooked by massive cotton mills.

I went to train as a teacher at St Martins College, Lancaster and later taught disadvantaged children in Morecambe. The class teacher next to mine was the comedian Jim Bowen, who was always good for a laugh. I came to the south west in around 1980 as a teacher of children with severe behaviour difficulties. The job became very stressful after 12 years and I left to work part time in local colleges teaching watercolours and later for many happy years I taught watercolours and drawing at the Ashtorre Community Centre, Saltash.

My own painting has always been important to me and I have exhibited at many places in Devon, Cornwall and further afield. Perhaps my most notable tutoring, at Saltash Passage, was with the young Charlotte Smith of BBC Countryfile. I list below where I have exhibited work over the years tutoring or demonstrating to groups.

Ashtorre Centre Saltash, Prysten  House  Plymouth, Ibiza, France, St Andrews Church, Plymouth, Barbican galleries, 1,2,3., Thame Oxfordshire, Plymouth Dome, Kaya Gallery Plymouth, Mountbatten Centre, London, Royal Opera House Arcade, Barbican Glassworks, Debenhams, Ballard House solicitors, Derriford Art Group, Shire Horse Centre, Theatres, Colleges, Catchfrench Manor, Hampton Manor, Plymouth Art Gallery,  Homeframe Gallery Plymouth, Plymouth tourist information centres and many more places.

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