Phil Entwistle

In 2007 I gave up my job to become a full-time artist. My interest is in the boundaries between figurative and abstract, and between control and chaos. My inspiration is the landscape of my native north of England - its physical processes, how it became what it is, and how it continues to change.

Hull, Hull, GB, Art & Design,

In preparation for a solo exhibition in 2011 I'm currently working on a new series of paintings: The Edge.
It's an up-close look at the landforms of the Yorkshire coast. I see the landscape as an immense physical object that is still undergoing the geological processes of uplift, weathering and wave-cutting. As the ‘father of modern geology’ James Hutton put it, “We see no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end”.
As you go northwards from the clay of Filey and the chalk of Flamborough to the sandstone and shales of Ravenscar and Port Mulgrave, there’s a time-sequence: younger rocks in the south, older in the north. There’s also a varied visual array of structure, form, texture and colour. Art as well as science can help us to appreciate and interpret this edge of the land.