Neil Pittaway was born in 1973 in Wakefield, Yorkshire and went on to study at the Universities of Bradford, Huddersfield, GLoucestershire, Seville,(Spain) and the Royal Academy Schools in London. Neil has exhibited his works in group and solo exhibitions nationally and internationally including Centro Mondigliani, Florence (Italy), The British Council Gallery, New Delhi (India), The Indian Institute of Contemporary Art, Mumbai, (India), The Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts,(London), The Arts Club Dover Street, (London), Lloyds TSB UK wide touring exhibition, Buckinghamshire County Museum, Plus -One -Plus II Gallery, (London), Bankside Gallery (London), Curwen and New Academy Gallery, (London), Patterson Gallery, (London), Waterstones, Piccadilly, (London), Park Lane Hotel,(London), Singer Friedlander Sunday Times Watercolour Competition, (London and Manchester), Christies, (London), British Red Cross touring exhibition, (London,Cardiff and Edingburgh), Artsmill, (Hebden Bridge Yorkshire), Mansion House Galleries, South Hill Park, (Bracknell), Yorkshire), and the Zillah Bell Gallery, (Thirsk, Yorkshire).

 

 

Neil was elected to the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS) in 2002 and to the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers (RE) in 2000 and Elected an Artist Member of the Arts Club, Dover Street, Mayfair, London, 2001, and has participated in many public events including the 'Big Draw', public demonstrations and lectures at the Bankside Gallery, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham Surrey, South Hill Park Braknell and Wakefield City Art Gallery.

 

 

 

Neil's works are in various private and public collections including the Victoria and Albert Museum, (London), St. Paul's Cathedral Library, (London), Ashmolean Museum, (Oxford), D.H. Lawrence Museum, (Nottingham), The Royal Watercolour Society Collection, (London), Guild Hall Art Library, (The Corporation of London),New Academy and Curwen Gallery, (London), Institute of Contemporary Indian Art, (Mumbai, India), University of Gloucestershire, Bradford College and Guy's Hospital, (London).

 

Neil was commissioned in 2001 by Enitharmon Press to create a set of drawings to illustrate an Anthology of London Poems and prose, (for further details see the publications page). 

 

Neil in 2007 became a trustee of the Royal Watercolour Society, (UK).

 

Neil's work in 2001 was featured in 'Great Artists', Series for Channel 5 Television, (UK).