Liverpudlian Neil Buchanan, the creator, artist, producer and presenter behind the two times BAFTA award-winning TV sensation – Art Attack – is back in the city with his first ever collection of published fine art.
Entitled Neil Buchanan’s HOPE STREET, the 12-strong series of limited edition prints is a nostalgic and evocative collection of art inspired by Neil’s childhood memories growing up in Liverpool in the early 1960s.
The popular artist, who attracted an audience of six million viewers in the UK each week on Art Attack, is taking a much anticipated step back into the limelight after his rumoured death on the internet for the official launch on FRIDAY 7 OCTOBER in Rennies Gallery, at 61-63 Bold Street, Liverpool L1 4EZ from 6pm to 8pm where the new collection will be unveiled and displayed in the countdown to Christmas.
Neil has also created a charity painting called A Little HOPE with ten per cent of the sales of the limited edition canvases, being donated to help the work of the Alder Hey Imagine Appeal in Liverpool.
The popular TV artist will make a visit to Alder Hey on Friday 7 October between 2pm to 3pm to present the hospital with A Little HOPE stretched canvas and tour the inspiring ‘Arts for Health’ programme at one of the biggest and busiest children’s hospital in Europe.
Following a sinister rumour that ‘buried’ the artist after his reported ‘battle with colon cancer’, the talented, self-taught artist moved from Art Attack to his art attic at home to record and reflect the simpler days of his childhood in the early 60s, long before computers banished us to cyberspace and traffic clogged up our streets.
And so the seed of an idea was sown for a new, yet strangely familiar, adventure playground and Neil’s ‘second coming’ with the launch of Neil Buchanan’s HOPE STREET.
Neil Buchanan says, “I want to take you on a special journey. This voyage doesn’t involve a long car ride or train trip, because my HOPE STREET is not a place, it’s a state of mind... and it’s a nice place to be.
"When I went out to play, I walked down my very own Hope Street everyday with the gift that only children truly possess in abundant measure - imagination.”
He added: "“I’m a sucker for nostalgia and I hope the paintings of my HOPE STREET will bring memories of your own childhood flooding back. As a performer, I want my pictures to perform for you and take you on a journey down your own HOPE STREET – to a place where you were free to dream and be whatever and whoever you wanted to be.”
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