Neal French

Neal’s work is figurative and based on seen and experienced reality, often it is based on people he knows doing ordinary things. However it is seldom literal. It usually derives from an image of a figure that seems entirely characteristic of that person, but which at the same time carries abstract sculptural qualities and possibilities. All of the work is about balancing those two elements and using the qualities of the materials to express them.

Neal is an Emeritus Professor at Middlesex University, and is an Elected Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors (ARBS 2000) & an Elected Member of the Society of Portrait Sculptors. He has had various books, papers and articles published on ceramic and sculptural subjects.