Neil Mawdsley

Plymouth UK

Dive into my unique sea-themed art on this page, lessons, and diary come later.

My previous site was getting clunky, so bear with me while I build this my fourth website. There are a few hilarious sentences and pictures that are waiting to be changed by me so please be patient. This is a WordPress site which is new to me. I bit the bullet and experimented with an AI creator for the site by feeding a few sentences here and there and ‘hey presto’ there it was. A right mess to start with. I have been busy deleting and adding ever since to humanise the entries. Still much to do, but AI did create an initial framework to get started.

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Shipwreck Poster at Etsy

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 came to the south west in around 1980 as a teacher of children with 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 was also 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.