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 matter. 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, field workers finishing their tasks, flowers in a still life wilt and die, 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 the one time.

Phillip has lived and painted in the Northwest since 1988. His long desire to paint the subject matter of the impressionists and his belief that beautiful subject matter increases the probability of painting beautiful paintings inspired two painting trips to Mexico and eight trips to Europe. In April of 2007 and April of 2008, a rented canal boat on the Canal du Midi, France, served as a floating studio and hotel.

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