Michael Shane Neal

Receiving his B.A. from David Lipscomb University, Neal recently received the “Young Alumnus of the Year” award from his alma mater. He has also studied at the Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, The Scottsdale Artist School, the Lyme Academy of Art, and is a protégé of the late master figurative and portrait painter, Everett Raymond Kinstler. His work has been featured in publications such as American Artist, International Artist, Sketchbook, The Artist’s Magazine, Art News, Fine Art Connoisseur, Art Collector Magazine, and Nashville Arts Magazine.

Neal is a member of the board of directors of the Portrait Society of America, The American Patrons of the National Library and Galleries of Scotland, The Scottish Society of Middle Tennessee, and the Norman Rockwell Museum’s National Council. He served for six years as a member of the Executive Board of Trustees of the Cheekwood Museum of Art. He is an Exhibiting Artist member of the National Arts Club in NYC and is a member of the Allied Artists of NY, the Artist Fellowship of NY, the Cumberland Society of Painters, the Audubon Artists, the Salmagundi Club of NYC, the Lotos Club of NY, and the Sloane Club of London.

Neal is a member of the Economic Club of Nashville and serves as a deacon at his church. He enjoys community outreach projects, golf, plein air landscape painting, travel, and reading with a particular interest in history. Neal is the father of two daughters, and he is the present owner of a historic Nashville home, “Lone Oak," a 100-year-old English manor-style country house where Neal maintain his studio on the property.