Born on the island of Jamaica and raised in New Jersey, Oneil Edwards is an abstract impressionist painter whose early work focused on explorations of identity (self and the social) driven by his history and experience as a member of the diaspora, and immigrant community.

Since moving to the Hudson Valley area of Upstate New York, his work has shifted towards capturing the profound beauty, drama, and abstraction readily available (if one chooses to see) in the same natural sceneries that gave birth to the Hudson River School Movement of the mid-19th century.

Oneil pulls the viewer in close to the subject to the point of abstraction, where the macro and the micro coexist. Balance between light and dark, harmony and chaos, the macro and the micro are constant in his new body of work that connects the wonder of the natural world around us to the infinite cosmos beyond.