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Neil Bulpitt
Artist and
Designer

Illustration and Design

Essentially a wildlife artist and ornithologist with a background of commercial and technical illustration. Neil enjoys the freedom of painting, designing and illustrating subjects at both ends of the creative spectrum.

Landscapes

View Neil's oils, portraying the everchanging light around our coastline. Most landscapes are inspired from Devon and Cornwall.

Sterling Silver design

Neil has been fortunate to have had the opportunity to design many stunning sterling silver centerpieces. Commissions have been from Richard Branson, Asprey, Garrard, Mappin and Webb, Tiffany, New York and Royalty.

Book illustration

Whether magazines, books and National newspaper graphics /illustration. Neil always enjoys the challenge of new commissions.

Wildlife

Neil has been involved in studying wildlife since at school, it was no surprise that it became a huge part of his career.

Nature Watch Calendars

Each year Neil produces a unique Wildlife calendar. With the help of watercolour illustrations, each month explains what to look out for in and around the British countryside. Calendars can be signed on request

Commercial illustration

Much of Neil's work is commissioned varying from book and magazine contracts to private commissions for galleries and collectors. Specialist subjects include, automotive, architectural, technical and information news graphics.

Wildlife

Left - Pride of Lions detail in gouache.

Left is a detail from 'A pride of lions' painting in gouache. Neil has visited Africa on many occasions in order to sketch, draw and paint the wildlife from life, running free and wild.

£1,500

for sale

Watercolours - Puffin, Bee-eater, Lovebirds, Lionfish.

Watercolours are perfect for producing clean, transparent and bright colours,

Gouache - Tiger, Wildcat, Stallion, Chicks

For a more precise and detailed rendering, gouache, for me is the perfect medium.

Silver

Designs in solid sterling silver

Made in sterling silver, with oxidization and silver
gilding, these two life size Mute Swans were designed and overseen from conception, creation to completion by Neil, one of which is on display at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

Working from sketches, precise measurements and photos were taken from wild swans. Neil created a model prototype from which templates were made in silver and then assembled. Neil made each flight feather individually, as a template and were inserted to create realism.

On the left are a pair of Shell on reed bowls both on a malachite base, a Chinousery octagonal Tea set and a large incense burner.

All sold

Huge oval solid silver bowl

150cm x 88 and 45 cm in height

Massive solid sterling silver oval bowl guilded on the inside. Chased horse handles, pierced strapping and running gadroon base.

Left, various, design sketches and drawings before deciding on final design.

Not for sale

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Blue Riband Trophy

Neil was commissioned by Sir Richard Branson to design a new ‘Blue Riband Trophy’

The ‘Virgin Atlantic Challenge Tropy’
stands 31 inches high with a total weight in
excess of 17kg and contains 550 oz of silver.

The trophy rests on a circular plinth of English oak. Encircled by a blue riband of enamelled silver bearing the names of the past transatlantic record holders.

NFS