Epiphany Art
Neville Palmer
Neville Palmer is a Cambridgeshire-based digital printmaker whose five-decade exploration of a single square motif — used as a character in a simple visual language — weaves together abstraction, faith, and the harmony of all created things.
Mediums: Digital printmaking
Themes: Abstract geometry · Light · Harmony · Redemption · The square motif
Location: Wisbech, Cambridgeshire
Willing to discuss commissions
About Neville
Neville Palmer's artistic journey began in childhood with music and singing, becoming visual in his late teens with photography and making sculpture while he was living in Canada (1962-74). A notable experience involved working with ten other artists on a community artworks project in Ontario when he became increasingly involved in drawing in colour with oil pastels.
Back in England, and following a vision, a square motif came to him in 1976 while living in community at Little Gidding — a decisive moment that's shaped everything in his artistic practice since that time. Through oil pastels, then painting with acrylics, and now within the digital environment, Neville has worked with this single motif for five decades, using it as a character in a simple visual language capable of carrying great spiritual weight.
In 2014 he was selected as one of eight artists for an exhibition in Lincoln showcasing artistic practice in the East of England and was the recipient of the purchase award from that event.
In their own words
"My approach to creative practice involves seeing it as an integral element of one's being a living soul made in the Creator's image — personally being caught up in that which originates with God and incorporates actual life in its activity here and now
"In its outworking this may take the form of prayer and praise as much as in being a faint echo, a reflection, or even a shadow cast by the light in which one aspires to walk — a place where everything is connected and everything is given. Redemption is a key word in this encounter, with a sense of balance, wholeness, order and harmony.
"As for subject matter, I very rarely begin a work with a preconceived notion of interpreting or portraying something. Rather it is an intuitive making process, a matter of absorbing influences from a variety of sources over time and allowing them to be collectively transfigured on the picture plane."
Faith and the creative act
For Neville Palmer, faith places God as foundational to everything — and art, on that ground, becomes one expression among many of the daily acknowledgement of God as the primary source. He works from a disposition of thankfulness, understanding the creative act as a faint echo or shadow cast by the divine light in which he aspires to walk. His abstraction isn't empty — it's saturated with meaning drawn from observations of sky, cloud, stars, relationships, music and spiritual discipline.
Redemption, balance, wholeness, order and harmony are the governing convictions beneath the visual surface.
Selected works
