About the Artist

Phillip Roberts

(American Born, 1944 to Present)

Phillip received a BFA degree in painting from the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City Missouri in 1972. While attending school in Kansas City he became intrigued with the impressionist school of painting and their use of nature as a source of information for their work. Using the infinite variations of nature in the still life, figure and landscape the artist is presented with limitless subject matters. Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and other painters of nature were earlier influences on Phillip’s work. Dealing with ever-changing elements of nature, movement of light and shadow in the landscape, Phillip adopted a broken color style of applying paint to his canvas. This approach allowed the image on the canvas to be developed quickly and all at one time.

Phillip has lived and painted in the northwest for the past three plus decades. His long desire to paint the subject matter of the impressionist and his belief that beautiful subject matter increases the probability of painting beautiful paintings inspired two painting trips to Mexico and ten trips to Europe. In April of 2007, April 2008 and again in 2014 a rented boat on the Canal du Midi, France served as a form of transportation, a floating studio and hotel.

The early painting trips to Mexico and Europe yielded a few successful paintings but importantly hundreds of resource photos to be later used in Phillip's studio as subject matter for new paintings.

More information about Phillip's art journey can be viewed in his newsletter "About the Artist in Photo"

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The paintings on this web site are some of the works available from Phillip’s studio.