Bio
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Born: Rumford, Maine
Education: Rumford High School , University of Southern Maine, B.F.A. Awarded the Carina House Monhegan Artists Residency, 1996 As a recipient of the Carina House Monhegan Artist's Residency, Phil spent five weeks on Monhegan Island, painting and hiking the island's natural wonders in the summer of '96. After many years of showing at some of the better galleries in southern Maine, Phil has taken a hiatus from actively promoting his work in commercial venues.
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- From the luminists, the idea of the landscape imbued with the spiritual
- Asher B. Durand, was a highly underrated nineteenth century American painter
- Neil Welliver helped Phil to see that it was O.K. to paint the interior.
Nature, art, and song, have encoded my life. While I’ve focused my life around creative work, the battery powering this bus has been my connection to nature. I have consistently woven chunks of outdoor time into my life: whether solo backpacking, or with snowcave trips to Central Quebec and Southern Labrador. Nature is a mystic thread that spans the whole catalogue of my creative work.
I am an observational naturalist. Photography – the visual transcription – butresses painting. Working with digital imagery, I push the images, then, pull out work that feels more painterly than anything I ever did with a brush!
