Phil Davis

Phil Davis studied Fine Art and Sculpture at Loughborough University, completing his degree in 2004. An accomplished draughtsman, Phil initially presented scenic depictions and travel experiences in pencil and oil pastel, using intense, bold colours as a way of reflecting a childlike wonder in the new, and in a sense the extreme, sometimes uncomfortable emotional commitment involved in relating to the culturally unfamiliar.

Changing to working largely with oils resulted in work of much greater vibrancy, and allowed the extreme emotional sensations in which he was interested to be committed more successfully to canvas. His work now strives to acknowledge both the positive and negative energies, the good and the bad consequences, of these emotions, and how they inform our view of the world around us.

More and more he attempts to inject the same feeling into his portrait/figurative work by representing the figurative form as an emotionally charged contradiction, as a twisted and gnarled yet beautiful representation of pain and raw feeling, as well as an object of pure physicality.

Loughborough University School Of Art & Design. 2001 - 2004

BA Fine Art/Sculpture. 2:1

Kidderminster College. 1998 - 2001

BTEC GNVQ (Advanced) & BTEC Foundation Art & Design. Distinction

‘Global Cultures. A Visual Journey’ Exhibition. Degree Art Gallery - Bankside Hotel, Southbank, London - 14th February - 24th May 2025

‘Whispers Of The Infinite’ Exhibition. Fire Pit Art Gallery - Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London - 17th October - 27th January 2025

Roy’s Art Fair - Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf, London - September 2023

Flux Exhibition - Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London - May 2023

Flux Exhibition - Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London - June 2022

Flux Exhibition - Design District, Greenwich Peninsula, London - November 2021

Flux Review Virtual Exhibition - June 2021

Flux Exhibition - Royal Army Museum, Chelsea, London - April 2019

Flux Exhibition - Chelsea College Of Art, Chelsea, London - April 2018

New Artists Fair - Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London - September 2017

Flux Exhibition - Chelsea College Of Art, Chelsea, London - July 2017

GloArt Artist Trials 2016 - GloArt Artist Residency, Lanaken, Belgium - March 2016

Creative Debuts Showcase XIII - Canary Wharf, Tower Hamlets, London - January 2016

Creative Debuts Showcase XII, First Thursdays - Whitechapel Gallery, London - December 2015

Aesthetica Magazine, October/November Issue - October/November 2015.

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