Inspired by observations and my impressions of specific places, I aim to convey my passionate interest in the natural environment and wildlife in my paintings. My work tells a story or records a moment that I have experienced. I have been lucky to have lived and worked in several wild and beautiful places around the UK including the Highlands of Scotland, the Fife coast, Gloucestershire Cotswolds, the Norfolk fens, and now West Wales. My husband is a bird ecologist, so we have migrated between bird hotspots. I was until recently based in the East Neuk of Fife, near St Andrews. Now we are living, and I am painting, in Pembrokeshire. I have a whole new beautiful landscape to discover on my doorstep.
My early working life and training as a textile and surface designer has given me a love of colour and pattern as well as drawing and painting skills. I have been an artist in residence for a school, a pub, a walled garden and a bird observatory. In 2016 I was Artist in Residence at the RZSS Highland Wildlife Park, and in 2019, Artist in Residence at Cambo Gardens, Kingsbarns in Fife. I was awarded a Creative Scotland/Scottish Natural Heritage project; ‘Imagining Natural Scotland’ in 2013/14 and I took part in the first Findhorn Bay Arts Festival in 2014. Recently I have had the privilege of being the Artist in Residence for the Fife Coastal Path. The Fife Coast and Countryside Trust stock my book on a year of walking and sketching the path together with two sets of my greetings cards. You can find them on their website shop – on the second or third page.
I’ve had three paintings accepted into the Society of Wildlife Artists’ annual The Natural Eye Exhibition at the Mall Galleries in London in recent years and I’m fortunate to have a number of collectors both in the UK and overseas. I sell originals and bundles of cards to customers who get in touch via my website. If you would like to get in touch about anything you see, I would be very happy to help. To see my latest work in progress, please follow me on Instagram or Facebook or sign up to my quarterly newsletter below:
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Hi Philippa,
We bought some miniatures of Bass Rock from you at the Crail Fayre and they have found a happy home! We love your pictures and have a space or two to fill. Can we view some of your oil paintings? Specifically the one of May Island and the Combo walk. Thanks, Stuart & Ulrike.