Anne-Catherine Phillips
People
Russian scarf dance 86x96cm		 Hastings
The 'Amethyst' in March 60x80cm
 Interiors
Listening to the radio 86 x 102 cms		 landscape
Pond in April 46x56cm		 Seascapes
Evening,Trevone Bay 66x102cm		 Still life
Iris 2 24x18cm		 Walled garden
Perfect Plumbago 66x50cm

A word about the paintings

I have painted ever since I can remember. I first used oil paints when I was about thirteen, setting up a studio in the guest room. A doll in a chair was the first model. I love oils above all other media,they remain as fresh and new to me as they were that first time.

It is difficult for me to talk about painting,why I paint or what I am trying to say, capture etc.

I paint for the love of the activity, for the joy of looking; really looking around me, whether it be the light on the back of a neck, a basket of ironing, the sky, the sea, tulips in winter...

I suppose that I would like to think that it is possible, through a painting, to communicate some of this pleasure.

When my children were young I did what I could, and as they grew older I was able to paint more. When they were at school time was limited, and during these years I concentrated on domestic interiors and local landscapes. Later I spent a year  drawing in two different places,one was a ballet class for young girls and the other was in a church hall where a group of women got together to do their embroidery.

I love to watch people concentrating. I did a series of paintings on these themes and began to work from drawings, something I had not really done for a long time. For many years my work was based on working directly in front of the subject, due, I think, to having to fit my painting time around the demands of three children.

I have begun to love the freedom and the challenge of working from drawings and have latterly spent a couple of years working in a studio in Hastings, drawing in the town for an hour or so most mornings and then working on paintings based on the drawings.

My work reflects the passage of my life,and will,no doubt continue to do so...

Born St Albans, Hertfordshire, England 1953

St Albans School of Art (foundation) 1972

Camberwell School of Art 1973/75

Group Shows

Rowland Browse and Delbanco London 1976/77/78

Thackery Gallery London 1979/80/81

Mall Galleries (portraits) London 1981

GLC Spirit of London exhibition London 1982

Geffrye Museum London 1992

Kent Painters Group Kent 1996/97/98

Rye Gallery E. Sussex 1997/99/00

Graham Gallery Tunbridge Wells 1997/98/99

Thompsons Gallery London 1999/00

Fairfax Gallery Tunbridge Wells 1999/00/01/02/03/04

Rowley Gallery London 2000/01

Salamander Gallery Westerham 2000/01/02/03

Grapevine Gallery Norfolk 2003

Mall Galleries

The Discerning Eye London 2004

Battersea Arts Fair London 2001/03/04

Lynn Stainer painters prize London 2005

Red Leaf Gallery Tunbridge Wells 2005/06

Red Leaf Gallery Tunbridge Wells 2005/6/7/8/9

Avery Contemorporary Art 2007/8/9

Rhapsody House 2008/9

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Battersea Arts Centre London 1982

Morley Gallery London 1983

Rye Gallery Rye 1997

Graham Gallery Tunbridge Wells 1998

Sheridan Russell Gallery London 2000

St Mary's Hospital Harrow 2002

Gallery 27, Cork Street London 2003

The Place Rye 2004

Frank T Sabin Gallery London 2004

Menier Gallery London 2006

The Old Brewery , Hastings 2008

Avery Contemporary Art 2009

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NEWS

Antibes
Antibe

These Paintings are worked from drawings. Sitting in a spot of shade on the beaches and by the rocks in Antibes, I watched and drew people on holiday. People in boats, sunbathing, swimming, people in the sunshine and the sparkling blue sea.

Nepal
Nepal

I spent three extraordinary weeks with a group of artists in Nepal. We stayed in Bhaktapur, a beautiful town about 8 miles from Khatmandu. We were there to draw, and indeed, drew continually. The Nepalese were very keen models, especially the children who would surround you, even if you thought that you had found a nice quiet spot! I did find a quiet spot. We went trekking in the Annapurna park.'Wind Raising the dust at Kegbeni' is an attempt to recall an afternoon spent, unobserved, drawing, near Kegbeni, looking down the river bed. It was so quiet, dust blown up from the dried river bed, looking like spirits rising ,the overwhelming presence of the mountains, the carefully tended fields below, and the haunting echo of a farmer urging on his oxen. As I sat there drawing I found it difficult to believe that I was there.

A couple of paintings of the shops,dark, medieval, holes in the wall, with piles of fabric, or stacks of pots etc etc. And then my four 'Buddhist' paintings. This was as a result of a day in Khatmandu at the Bodhnath, Nepal's largest Buddhist Stupa. A true haven in the middle of busy, busy Khatmandu. I was mesmerised by the prayer flags, flags are everywhere you go in Nepal, fluttering, faded and celebratory. And then the two paintings of Buddhist monks at prayer, a magical hour spent in the temple at sundown.

Domestic
Domestic

I wanted these paintings to be about the things in life that you do almost unconsciously, reaching for a glass, opening a door, drying your hands, the unfamiliar of the very familiar.

Nature
Nature

This year the woods were thick with anemones, and then bluebells, and then the fields with buttercups and daisies. I could not resist being there with my easel, my paints and a sandwich. Cut flowers I paint in winter when the days are short and grey, they cheer me up.
Previous Exhibitions

Wild Art

Exhibition of Kent and Sussex Artists
Rosamund Antiques
Church Street, Ticehurst,
East Sussex TN5 7AD

www.wild-at-art.org

WEST END HOUSE GALLERY
Smarden, Kent TN27 8QB

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www.wehg.co.uk 


111 High Street, Lewes,
East Sussex BN7 1XY

www.stannesgalleries.com

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