Like most of the Bonzos Neil was an ex art student studying first at Norwich School of Art and then three years at Golsdmith’s College of Art .  He made some pretty whacky works – a turntable painting  – folded into a cylinder and mounted on an old gramophone turntable.  Another was a picture frame with a complicated system of levers which delivered a small silver ball at one end of the frame into a box at the other end.   One of his more painterly works was bought by art critic David Sylvester when Neil was still at Goldsmiths,  Three voluptuous ladies painted onto tailors dummies, one of which was later sold to George Melly.