Phil Richards
Art Education: Trained in the university of sitting on park benches, travelling, commuting on the tube, lying on the grass and the beach, sitting in pubs, dancing in clubs, and observing, absorbing, experiencing and seeing life!
Medium: Sculpture, photography, acrylic and photoshop.
Art description: Verging on Magritte surrealism to pop art.
Themes: Evoking personal messages. Return to the source.
Influences : Observing people and nature, from sitting on the south bank in London, on a train or a park bench to looking at the cliffs next to a beach.
Artistic influences: My dreams – for many years I have been recording and drawing my dreams – surreal.
Based – West Auckland