Nick Phillips (b.1968)

Nick Phillips (b.1968)

Towards Grovely; Valley View; Wylye Valley Summer

Acrylic on paper

Mounted but unframed

Each 30cm x 40cm (including mount) (3)

Horatio's Garden will receive 100% of the hammer price on this lot.

While working in London, Nick attended evening life drawing classes at Heatherley's Art School in Chelsea London, and then gained a place on the foundation course at Chelsea College of Art in 1993. He returned to work at Auction Houses as an Art Handler/Technician for 14 years, continuing to draw and paint when possible, and showed work in staff art exhibitions. He completed a short course in Intaglio print making at Central St Martins College London. In 2007, he left work to pursue painting and put on a show of work in London in 2008. In this year he showed work at the Royal West of England Academy in Bristol, and in galleries in London and the South East, and the Affordable Art Fair Battersea. He moved to the Isle of Wight and showed work in galleries on the Island. He moved to Salisbury in 2010 and worked in a local Auction House while continuing to paint. From 2011, he rented a studio in Wilton, and attended Life Drawing sessions. He has shown in the Young Gallery Salisbury, and is a member of the supporters committee. In 2018 he made 100 paintings in two months, and designed and built the website at www.onehundredworks.com.

He is mainly, though not exclusively, interested in landscape. His process involves observed drawings made in situ, which are then developed in the studio. The information in the drawings is all that is used; there is no photography involved in the process. Over the years he has taught himself to paint with a limited palette which is unique to his work, through this method he can express notions of the history, and enigmatic character of landscape and engage in meditations about the human place in it.