PHIL TYLER

"Although a contemporary of YBA and a full-time lecturer in contemporary fine art in Brighton, my work has its roots in the much earlier tradition of the NEAC with Sickert and Singer Sargent at the helm.
I'm still fascinated by the way that paint can be both material (Guston called it coloured dirt!) and at the same time it can be used to mimic the effects of light, I like that duality in my own work and aspire to a fusion between description and gesture, a marriage perhaps, of the fomalism and specifics of Uglow and the 'spirit of the mass' of Auerback and Bomberg.
I've never been that interested in style. For me the subject matter is all important and it is that which dictates how something should be painted. Whether it is a grieving figure, the tense drama of an intimate still life or complex groups of figures - each has to be considered in terms of its own integrity and facture..." Phil Tyler 2006

Educated at East Ham College of Technology, Art Foundation course 1982 - 83. Loughborough College of Art and Design BA Hons, Fine Art (painting) 1983 - 86. Virginia Commonwealth University, USA BFA Fine Art 1985. Brighton Polytechnic MA Printmaking, 1988-1990. University of Brighton PGCE post compulsory 2002-2003.

Selected Group Exhibitions covering the last three years:

2008 Lynn Painters Stainers Prize (one of eight shortlisted to travel to USA)
Discerning Eye Mall Galleries
One Man Show - Fairfax Gallery Burnham Market
Affordable Art Fairs: Glasgow, London, Amsterdam
Zimmer Stewart Gallery

2007
Zimmer Stewart Gallery
New Grafton Gallery
Highgate Fine Art

2006
Fairfax Gallery Burnham Market
C2 Gallery Buckinghamshire
Highgate Fine Art

2005
Affordable Art Fair, Bristol
C2 Gallery
Deepdale Exhibitions
Fairfax Gallery
The Garrick Milne
The Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries

2004
The Affordable Art Fair
Art London
Artwave, London
Bruton Gallery, Leeds
The New Grafton Galleries, Sussex Show
'Works on paper' The Royal College of Art
QUODart Brighton

2003
'Artists of today and tomorrow' New Grafton Gallery
'The Discerning Eye' Mall Galleries
The Fairfax Gallery

Collections:
Work in various private and public collections in Britain, USA, Hong Kong and Finland - including Brian Sewell, I.M. Birtwistle, Peterborough Museum and Art Gallery and Brighton Museum and Art Gallery.