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Currently, Phillip's work is based predominately on the landscape. He uses oil paint to create bold, expressive canvases, rich in colour and texture. These can range from the abstract to semi-representational.

“I try to depict a real place with a poetic, private mythology of my own. A dream can influence me as much as a drawing, the underlying history and geology of a place can be as important as the visible terrain. In my studio I recall my journeys through the landscape, expressing a personal interpretation through the medium of oil paint”.

He describes his latest series of landscapes as “anthropomorphic” - paintings that exist somewhere between figurative and landscape.

“One painting can express the land as being female, fecund and reproductive and the sea as a male, penetrating element; in another painting the curves of a mountainside echo the contours of the human figure.
I often enter into another world in my studio, where instinct and imagination take over. When I begin a painting I sometimes have little idea of how it will look in its final form. A painting, I believe, has a life of its own - I just let it take me where it wants to go, it is this that captivates me the most”.

Inlet 2

2005
51cm x 61cm

Zygotic Bay

2005
122cm x 122cm

Expanse

2005
40cm x 50cm

city on the sea

2005
46cm x 60cm

Singing Bay

2004
41.5cm x 66cm

Union

2005
122cm x 122cm

Crossing

2004
50cm x 60cm

Where the river meets the sea

2006
20cm x 24cm