Ashley Phillips

Ashley’s eyes constantly capture fleeting moments & hidden details of nature, objects, and spaces; his mind & imagination then weave these memories creating a cocktail of possibilities.

Ashley’s acrylic and oils paintings are very expressive style full of the energy and emotions that he uses to paints with, inspired by Karel Appel and the COBRA art movement; where the process is as important as the final outcome, based on a working method of spontaneity and experiment. Often seen and inspired by childlike marks and vivid colours using brush and palette knife. Ashley is fascinated about capturing and representing ‘a moment in time’.

Powerful natural energies like tornadoes and waves lit his imagination from a very young age and his work often uses this speed and energy as a way of reflecting emotions. His art comes from taking time to look into what is happening inside him. Can we understand our own thoughts? Is there calm in the middle of a tornado? Does that mean you still have the other side to go through? The cycle of life; nature’s energy and abundance, mirrored in our own minds, in our own everyday emotions.

Ashley is passionate about biomimicry and how nature is our greatest teacher. He felt compelled to protect nature a...

Chelsea College of Arts
Bournemouth University
Goldsmiths

solo show Aug 2014 at XUL Architecture
100% design
Re:Design
Grand Designs Live 2012
Surface Design 2016
100% design 2017