portrait of this blog's author - by Stephen Blackman 2008

Thursday, December 01, 2022

 TOM PHILLIPS

25th May 1937 – 28th November 2022

So sad to hear of the passing of a favourite artist and one of the nicest and most interesting men I ever met. Tom Phillips aged 85. 

I have his book 'A Humument' in one of its editions as an artist's book (Thames & Hudson I think!) Works, Texts by Hansjörg Mayer and a signed print somewhere in the Swapper's Mansions vaults prolly down passed the Ha-ha and beyond the dungeon and the secure archive where I keep my records (ask your grandparents about vinyl)


https://www.tomphillips.co.uk

Tom Phillips (British, 1937-2022), Iris Murdoch, 1984-86. Oil on canvas, 36 x 28 in. National Portrait Gallery, London  Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)

Tom Phillips (British, 1937-2022), Calligraphy study (2). Oil on canvas, 40.5 x 30 cm.

Tom Phillips (British, 1937-2022), The Dante Binding, 1981-82. Oil on canvas, 78.7 x 63.5 cm.

The sitter here is Pella Erskine-Tulloch (b. 1956), bookbinder. After working as a binder and conservator at the College of Arms, London, she set up a studio to work with Phillips on his edition of Dante’s Inferno.


Tom Phillips | Artist | Royal Academy of Arts 

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