Phil JOHNS

Phil Johns has been a practising artist for more than thirty years.
His career began as a graphic designer and illustrator in the early seventies working in London based design houses before turning freelance.
Painting became a full time pursuit in the mid eighties.
He has since exhibited extensively in the UK and USA.
Exhibitions include the Royal Institute of Oil Painters and Royal Society of British Artists.
His work features in numerous private and public collections and his paintings and designs have been reproduced by many leading publishing houses.
Clients have included: Liberty, Medici, John Lewis, Harrods and Felix Rosenstiel’s.
Recent commissions have been produced for: British Petroleum,
Forest Healthcare Trust and Inter Continental Hotels Park Lane.
In 2003 he was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Having studied Graphic Design at Southend Art School during the sixties, he went on to gain an MA in Fine Art from Canterbury Christ Church University.

"The coast and skies of West Cornwall, together with the rural flatlands of East Kent are my principal areas of study.Cornwall continues to inspire the exploration of the moods and rhythms that become all the more evocative due to its peculiar mystique and fascinating light.
The outlying Canterbury countryside encourages me to develop my landscape painting through both
observed and emotional response. In order to
meet the challenge of depicting light, space and
sense of place, there is always a new way of seeing."
Phil Johns 2008

Paintings