Neil Pinkett – Following the Light
12 June – 11 July 2026
Neil Pinkett
Winter Sun Newlyn
oil on canvas
76 x 101cm £6950
Neil Pinkett
Interlocking
oil on board
50 x 50cm £2950
Neil Pinkett
Rock Cave
oil on canvas
50 x 70cm £4550
Neil Pinkett
Pedne Cliffs
oil on canvas
91 x 122cm £7950
Neil Pinkett
Summer Surf
oil on board
40 x 50cm £2550
Neil Pinkett
Storm Clouds
oil on board
50 x 50cm £2950
Neil Pinkett
Splashing Sun
oil on board
40 x 60cm £2950
Neil Pinkett
Sun Bursts Through
oil on board
61 x 76cm £3950
Neil Pinkett
Tresco Trees
oil on board
30 x 42cm £2225
Neil Pinkett
Tresco Trees II
oil on board
40 x 50cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Bath Canal
oil on board
40 x 50cm £2550
Neil Pinkett
Autumn River
oil on board
30 x 42cm £1950
Neil Pinkett
Almost Calm
oil on canvas
61 x 76cm £3950
Neil Pinkett
Waterfall
oil on canvas
102 x 76cm £6950
Neil Pinkett
Fell Lake
oil on canvas
60 x 85cm £4550
Neil Pinkett
Water Taxi, Venice
oil on canvas
41 x 60cm £2950
Neil Pinkett
Venice Colour
oil on board
51 x 42cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
After Lunch, Venice
oil on board
42 x 52cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Jewish Quarter, Venice
oil on board
44 x 42cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Bright Sun, Venice
oil on canvas
41 x 45cm £2550
Neil Pinkett
Late Sun, Venice
oil on board
30 x 42cm £2225
Neil Pinkett
The Yellow Sings Out, Venice
oil on board
40 x 51cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Sun and Shade, Venice
oil on board
42 x 45cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Evening Sun, Venice
oil on board
42 x 42cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Woodland River
oil on canvas
92 x 102cm £7950
Neil Pinkett
Sub-Tropical River
oil on board
80 x 70cm £4550
Neil Pinkett
Canal Trees
oil on board
42 x 60cm £2250
Neil Pinkett
Riverside
oil on board
42 x 45cm £2225
Neil Pinkett
Approaching Rain St. Ives
oil on board
51 x 76cm £3950
Neil Pinkett
Treen Sun
oil on board
30 x 42cm £1950
Neil Pinkett
Towards the Basilica Santa Maria della Salute
oil on board
37 x 37cm £2225
Neil Pinkett
Venice Heat
oil on board
30 x 40cm £1950
NEIL PINKETT – FOLLOWING THE LIGHT – 12 JUNE – 11 JULY 2026
“The real subject of every painting is light” Claude Monet
Neil Pinkett was born in St. Just, Cornwall in 1958. His early artistic career saw him work as a successful illustrator and visualiser until he moved into the fine art arena with a hugely successful debut solo exhibition in 1996. Since that date, Neil has rightly become one of the most prominent and respected landscape painters in the UK and his work has been exhibited at a large number of venues throughout the country and has also toured in America.
Neil portrays the landscape of Britain from a uniquely different perspective, his paintings are intrinsically linked to the land and sea, but it is the light that he captures reflected upon water for which he is synonymous. He is drawn to the light, whether it’s bright summer sunlight on the Atlantic, weak winter sun from low clouds, warm, golden Venetian sun on canals, or the changing rippling light on rivers, this exhibition has seen Neil follow the light from Cornwall to Bath to the Lake District, to Venice, working from his boat in Avon, from clifftops, riversides and from gondolas, bridges and boats. He is a master at capturing a moment in time – a fleeting golden glow, a glimpsed stillness on the water, a crash of waves – and he evokes a real sense of experience in us all.
Painting trips have always formed a fundamental basis to his painting practice and include a 1000 mile cycle journey from Cape Wrath in Scotland to Cape Cornwall in 2006. The expedition was meticulously planned and he cycled through Scotland, North West England and Wales and the entire Atlantic coast of Devon and Cornwall. The physically demanding trip saw Neil produce a prolific amount of watercolours and sketches along the way of sweeping valleys, mountains, land and seascapes. In 2008 he canoed down the River Shannon in Ireland painting from an easel stashed across the bow of his specially adapted canoe. The Shannon is the longest river in both Ireland and Britain at over 200 miles long from its source to the sea. In 2009, Neil undertook a second epic canoe and painting trip starting near the Forth Bridge in Scotland, through the Forth and Clyde and Glasgow and then out to the Inner Hebrides of Arran and Mull. In 2012 he produced a number of paintings of The Thames in London after chartering a helicopter to provide source material for the project. Cornwall Contemporary staged the subsequent exhibition of the paintings in Shoreditch, London and then arranged for the paintings to be exhibited for one year at Gordon Ramsay’s London restaurant The Narrow. For the last twenty years, Neil has had an annual solo exhibition at Cornwall Contemporary for which he works on a new themed collection of work based on the Cornish landscape.
Over the course of his career, Neil’s paintings have been collected by art lovers around the world and in addition to being exhibited at Gordon Ramsay Restaurant, London, he also had a number of works commissioned by Cunard for the Queen Elizabeth II and he is about to have work on permanent display in a new flagship Michelin starred restaurant in Cornwall.
Neil Pinkett is famed for his portrayal of water – painting sea and rivers and expressing an emotional response to the landscape has been the
purpose of his life. But what is intrinsic to all of the paintings he has ever created is capturing the luminescence on that water and creating a sense of movement within the landscape, instilling within us, a sense of wonder. It is a skill which he has honed to perfection.
I hope you will get the opportunity to visit Cornwall Contemporary whilst these paintings by Neil Pinkett are on display, they are truly breathtaking in real life. For those of you not able to come and view them in person, we will have a 3d virtual realty tour of the show on our website where you will also find more information about the artist.
This year is a special year, it marks 20 years of Cornwall Contemporary and it is also the 30th year since Neil Pinkett’s first ever solo exhibition.
It is my firm belief that Neil will become to be regarded as the very best painter of light and sea of his generation and I am delighted to be able to share his wonderful work with you all.
Sarah Brittain-Mansbridge MBE
Director, Cornwall Contemporary
