Tom Phillips RA (1937 - 2022) was born in London in 1937. He attended St Catherine’s College, Oxford in 1957, where he read English and at the same time studied drawing at the Ruskin School. In 1961 he went to Camberwell School of Art where his chief source of inspiration was Frank Auerbach. He went on to teach at Bath Academy of Art, Ipswich and Wolverhampton Art College between 1965 and 1972.
Screenprint with embossing, 2005
Signed in pencil, titled, numbered 8 from the edition of 200.
Image size 50.5 cm x 55 cm framed.
Inspired by Mussorgsky’s fifth movement.
Tom Phillips’s works are now taken care of in specialist collections across the world, including the Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry (University of Iowa Library), the Palazzo Butera (Palermo), National Gallery of Australia (Canberra), National Art Library (V&A, London), the Ashmolean Museum, with an archive of his papers in the Bodleian Library (both Oxford).