Howard Phipps

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Howard Phipps studied Fine Art at the Gloucestershire College of Art in Cheltenham.  He is a painter/printmaker with a special interest in wood engraving.

A member of the Royal West of England Academy since 1979, and the Society of Wood Engravers since 1985, he has also been a frequent exhibitor at Royal Academy summer exhibitions where he received the Contemporary Print Award for colour engraving.  In 2003 & 2004 he received the landscape print prize at the National Print Exhibition in London.

He has illustrated books for Bloomsbury, Century, The Fleece Press, Perdix Press, Country Life Magazine and The Folio Society (Charlotte Bronte, Shakespeare and Tennyson's Lady of Shalott).  His closest collaboration has been with The Whittington Press who published Stubble Burning (1982) with poems by Roland Gant.  They have since published three more books of his wood engravings - Interiors (1985), Further Interiors (1992), The Ebble Valley (2007).

Howard Phipps has a particular interest in the downland landscape of Wiltshire and Dorset.  His drawings are all made on location and the resulting wood engravings create an image which captures a recognisable spirit of place. 

Please see our blogposts - A Short Walk With Howard Phipps and To Win Green.  Also - Cutting It Fine - which has a link to an interview with Howard on BBC Radio 4.  In 2022, Howard's engravings and linocuts shared the Rowley Gallery window with Robert Newton's oil paintings - A March Window. 

Solo Exhibitions

2022
A March Window, The Rowley Gallery, London
2021
Cutting It Fine, The Salisbury Museum, Salisbury
2020
Open Country, The Rowley Gallery, London
2018
Howard Phipps: Wood Engravings & Linocuts, The Rowley Gallery, London
2016
Out of the Wood, The Art Stable, Child Okeford
2014
Cassian De Vere Cole Fine Art, London
2010
Gilbert White's House, Selborne
The Art Stable, Child Okeford
2008, 2001
St Barbe Gallery, Lymington
2006, 2002
Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt
2004, 1998, 1993
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
1997
Cheltenham Art Gallery
Cassian De Vere Cole Fine Art, London
1994
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Salisbury Museum

Group Exhibitions

2016
The Arborealists, St Barbe Gallery, Lymington
2015
Black To White, City Space, Winchester
Arborealists: The Art of Trees, Mottisfont Abbey
Arboretum, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2013
Under The Greenwood, St Barbe Gallery, Lymington
Awake Through Years, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
2010
Originals, Mall Galleries, London (Prizewinner)
2022, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2002, 1999, 1998, 1994, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2002
Nature From Wood, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1997
20th Century Wood Engraving, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

 

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