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P.O. Box 150331
Nashville, TN 37215
615.297.0516
nealstudio@comcast.net

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Artist's blog: http://michaelshaneneal.blogspot.com

Quotes from past clients:

“After all that, it seems just yesterday that we are getting in touch about the portrait and now it is done and hung and a wild success all around.­ I am still whirling in the thrill of it all. I could not possibly be more pleased with the end result. I am very grateful to you, Shane, for your sensitivity to Paul and to the man he is and was. The logo of the Sec. Of the Navy was a brilliant stroke and so was the Presidential Medal of Honor idea. I could not possibly be more pleased with the portrait and I am very, very happy to have gotten to know you a bit in the process.”

Leezee Porter, Portrait of Paul Nitze, Washington, D.C.

“Your painting of me is just beautiful (if I can be said to look beautiful)! I think somehow you managed to capture the way I look and I’m thrilled with what you did.”

Marian McPartland, Jazz Musician and host of Piano Jazz, Port Washington, NY

“It is difficult to find words to express how Roz and I felt at the unveiling of the very special portrait you created of me for the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Everyone I have talked with has described it as an exciting and moving work of art – unique and expressive.”

Alan Hantman, 10th Architect of the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.

"I want to thank you for the hospitality and warmth that you showed me [from] the time I got to Nashville yesterday until the time I left. The portrait that you have done is absolutely exquisite. My wife thought it was excellent from the picture that I brought home, and I told her that it was nothing like seeing the real thing. Your attention to detail was absolutely phenomenal, and the addition of my son Barry's gift of the cufflinks, which you included, totally completed the picture for me. I am very excited about your work and couldn't be happier or speak more laudable about you."

- Barry Cohen, Cohen, Jayson & Foster, Tampa, FL

"The only virtuoso artist who could not only make me look good and capture the thoughtfulness of my approach to the U.S. Senate."

- United States Senator Arlen Specter (R - Pennsylvania)