NEIL TOMKINS AND HIS DEEP RUMBLE

Words and photos by Jamie Preisz | Art by Neil Tomkins | Originally published in Monster Children

Neil Tomkins is an anomaly; that kind of laid back cool you’d imagine would be hitching a ride to a waterfall in the 60s.

He’s a go-with-the-flow kind of guy and a lover of travel, but not in the bullshit millennial Airbnb way. He seems to enjoy the present; life’s ups and downs that he rides quite casually with no malice for anyone or anything. Sometimes people like this can be hard to get along with, but in Neil’s case, he’s is genuine to the core. Neil has a genuine insight into the world he sees unfold in front of him. Granted there’s some whimsy in that, but when the weight of current events seems bleak, Neil is a tall glass of water reminding us to see the world around us in technicolour and tell yourself everything is going to be alright.