GODFREY OWEN PHILLIPS (Download CV)

Born in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire, painting drawing and making became a focus of life from early childhood.

Having left school at 15 after numerous jobs Phillips studied at Birmingham Polytechnic for a degree in Fine Art Sculpture, Manchester Polytechnic MA and The Cheltenham Fellowship in Sculpture 1972.

A career as a part time lecturer in sculpture followed with personal artworks produced in a small studio.

Towards 1999 a number of Artist in Residence posts and Educational Workshops in South Wales led to a full time commitment to sculpture with a number of large Public Art commissions in Wales and the South East of England.

Since 2004 the artist has lived in Hertfordshire creating and manufacturing not only public and private commissions but exterior and interior sculptural furniture. The creative design element is still supported by idiosyncratic personal painting, drawing and sculpture.

"I make things in a wide range of materials and scale. The activity of making is very important to me. The tactile experience of sculptural materials with a visual narrative, sometimes contextual sometimes emotional, provides the framework for the things that I create".