About Neil

Neil recently returned to Cape Cod from Sedona, Az  where he was a successful ceramicist and taught ceramics at the Sedona Art Center.  He helped develop the program at the Art Center into being one of the most successful ceramics programs in Northern Arizona.

Neil lived the majority of his early life in Dennis.  During his school years his mother would take him to many of the ceramicsts on Cape Cod.  She would frequently take him down to Scargo Pottery to watch Harry Holl work.

It wasn't until college that Neil's dialogue with clay started when he studied figurative and Renaissance art in Rome, Italy.  After getting out of college and working in the sports marketing world, Neil took ceramics classes at multiple institutions studying with some of our nation’s leading ceramicists.

Neil started working in ceramics in Santa Barbara, CA, where he deepened his artistic commitment, began working in clay full time and started the search for his artistic voice.  Neil then moved his home and studio to Lake Arrowhead, CA and then Sedona, AZ.

Neil’s pieces are represented in many collections in the South West, Southern California and New England.  His ceramic pieces range from functional thrown forms to coil and slab-built figurative sculptures.  His current clay pieces meld thrown forms, slabs, altering, incising and sculpting.  The glazes on the functional pieces, fired in an electric kiln, have been developed to give the surface the depth and beauty traditionally associated with reduction firing.  Neil's pieces meld a spiritual simplicity with a figurative rhythm and physical energy.  This comes from being a kinetic individual, from a lifetime of playing sports, and his appreciation of Japanese ceramics and classical sculpture.