Artist’s Statement

“Capturing the light striking a range of subject matter has
always interested me whether it is the landscape, nude or
cityscapes. I'm interested in our emotional response to the
often fleeting memories we retain of something we have seen
and how it affected us. It could be a glare on water or a pose
we see for a millisecond as someone moves in every day life
to touch their hair or dry themselves after a swim. I'm also
concerned with creating an exciting painting surface with
abstract qualities and enjoy painting in warm low evening or
winter light to resolve form, colour and light into a warm
companion on canvas.”
Philip works with oil, water-colour, dry-point and etching.
His immediate environment is Christchurch, where he lives,
with its cityscapes, the Canterbury plains, the Southern Alps
and Banks Peninsula - all sources of subject matter and
inspiration. Philip regularly travels and paints around New
Zealand and has had several trips overseas gathering material
from which he has painted.