About Neil:
Neil Eyre sole owner and artist of Eyre
Designs grew up in Rotherham, a small industrial town in South Yorkshire,
England. From a young age he loved to create things with his hands, and
spent many a days drawing comics or woodworking in the family shed. As a
teenager, he began to experiment with oil on canvas. His impressive
landscape paintings assured him entrance into the art department of the
University at Wolverhaptom, where he majored in product design.
His first taste of professional success arrived during his university
years, when Rosenthal China selected his cutlery design as part of their
tabletop offerings. For his senior thesis, he designed an electronic
helmet that allowed police who rode mountain bikes not to have to reach
for their radios as well as completely re-styling cycling helmet these
same style helmets are now used all over the world today. The design
earned him First Class honors.
Neil's love of woodworking, landscape painting and product design has
continued into adulthood, but sculpting is his favorite mode of
expression. His hobbies range from studying foreign languages to
collecting books. Now married to his wife Bernadette they reside on Long
Island with their Yorkshire Terrier, Lexi, rescue Collie mix Sandy,
and a bunch of rescued kitty Cats who provide Neil with
amusement and a broad range of subject matter.
As an Independent guest artist for
Harmony Kingdom Neil enjoyed creating Pond Friends Box which was inspired
by the pond just adjacent to their home, first released as a
Japanese style Inro through his company Eyre Designs many enjoyed the Pond
Friends theme either as a Box through HK or Inro through Neil directly and
it earned him a repeat performance at HK with Lunar Mansion. His love for
astrology was the inspiration for his Lunar Mansion and his love of Nature
brought his release of Forbidden Fruit to life. Each release sold out
very quickly through HK and Neil looks forward to his next venture at
Harmony Kingdom.
I now hope to start doing personal portraits again in either
Oil or Acrylic paintings. I also reproduce portraits in black and white. My
most recent being Bernadette's parents wedding picture from over
50 years
ago. Currently the waiting time for
personalized
portraits or paintings is 8-12 weeks.
 One
of my favorite paintings is Benidorm (shown left), the
combinations of colors make it both calming and relaxing to look at.
In the meantime Neil and Bern have their hands
full with Eyre Designs after all his creations are based on Editions
of 50 or less in which he models, molds, hand casts and hand finishes all
of his own pieces.
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help  you with please let us know.
Neil & Bern
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