Tylor McNeil is a realist oil painter based on Vancouver Island, with strong ties to Atlantic Canada. He specializes in painting flowers often grown in his and his wife’s garden.
Tylor is drawn to their quiet beauty and subtle ways they carry meaning.
Roses hold particular personal significance, linking him to childhood memories and to the sheltering, imaginative world of stories such as The Secret Garden: a place without fear or judgment where one can simply be oneself.
Flowers in his work suggest openness, tenderness, and the persistence of small moments of grace. Counterbalancing this intimacy, occasional skulls enter the compositions as sober reminders of impermanence, loss, and the things we carry with us.