Philip Clayton SWAc
Philip trained at Hornsey, The Cass and Central St. Martins’ and has headed several departments of Art and Design. Including a decent ‘stretch’ with HMP Young offenders,
One of the most rewarding of his career.
He has exhibited widely both at home an abroad Including the former Soviet Union with the London based Riverside Artists Group who pioneered several cultural exchange exhibitions in a time of historic upheaval. This experience was an inspiration that has remained throughout his career.
Buildings and Landscape; an oil painter preferring to work en plein air, Philip’s main interest is documenting the Demise of the Rural and he has been using his studio in La France Profonde, and his travels to Eastern Europe (as well as capturing the subtleties of coastal light in the West Country) to record with an artists eye, often working into paintings as seasons change and before modernisation or decay removes all traces.
Once finished a piece is never ‘touched up’ in the hope that the freshness of the day evokes the memory of time and place that so enlivened the artist.
Never afraid of putting up his easel and just ‘getting on with it’ his honest approach to a challenging practice, together with his unique use of colour, culturally enriches his abstract work and has won him many admirers.
Philip combines his practice with running a new Community Interest Gallery, mentoring and is actively involved with the London Charity, Art for Youth.
Old Farm
