After graduating from Fashion and Textile Design at Kingston University, Neil Greer worked in Switzerland for Jakob Schlaepfer AG, creating promotional designs for their world famous textiles. He then went on to work for Nigel French Enterprises, a trend forecasting company in London. Here he developed a facility for putting together colour, fabric and styling trends for future seasons and he went on to consult with major international design companies and department stores, under the name Tendenz, a company he established in 1995. His love of decorative arts is a recurring theme. Historical and contemporary mosaic design hold a particular fascination. He is now exploring this further, taking commissions for fine art work, portraiture, furniture and garden works. His designs have a strong illustrative feel, and he uses a combination of smalti, vitreous glass tiles and matt ceramics to create vibrant and fractured artworks which invite the viewer to collaborate in the design process. By visually encouraging and challenging them to fuse the separate elements to form the whole ‘picture’, they become complicit in the finished result. neilgreermosaics.co.uk
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