Frederick Phillips

Born in Stoke-on-Trent in 1953, oil painter Frederick Phillips studied Fine Art under Arthur Berry at Burslem College of Art, graduating with a BA in 1974. Following successful exhibitions in the Midlands, in 1981 he moved to London and began exhibiting his work at galleries there.

In 1990 he was awarded an ‘Artist of Exceptional Merit’ visa by the USA and moved to Chicago where he lived and worked for 17 years.

Although he continues to work with his many collectors in the United States, in 2007 he returned to his home town in the UK, established a new studio and has since exhibited his work in exhibitions in Manchester, Birmingham and Staffordshire. In April 2016, the artist was one of the first to move his studio into the ACAVA Artists Studios at the former Spode Works pottery factory in Stoke-on-Trent where he worked for four years before returning to his home studio where he continues to paint and plan exhibitions.

Since leaving Art College, Frederick has studied the techniques of the artists of the past to create masterpieces for the future. Dedicated to the art and craft of oil-painting - and more recently, Soft Artists' Pastels - even his Limited Edition Archival Pigment Prints are created to archival museum-grade standards.

His atmospheric paintings are like half-remembered dream images, glimpsed briefly as we awaken. As the artist himself has noted:

"Originally I was inspired by the Surrealists, and even today my paintings are not realistic portraits of the world around me. My work is about memory; I don't paint what I see, but the memory of what I have seen"

Since he graduated in 1974, Frederick has exhibited his art at regular exhibitions in the UK and the USA and has had many solo exhibitions as well as taking part in mixed shows. A full CV is available upon request.

Exhibitions of the artist’s work have been held in the West Midlands, London, Chicago, New York, Boston, Puerto Rico and Hong Kong and his work is in private and corporate collections throughout the world.