About

Phillip Jacobs is a Welsh artist based in Swansea.

He studied Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton, where a specialised in painting and printmaking. He went on to study for an MSc in Interactive Media at UWTSD (Swansea), developing time-based and static digital artworks. 

His work is characterised by the use of bold colour and dynamic forms, set inside a multi-layered landscape. He currently uses acrylic paint, a medium he prefers using because of its versatility and quick drying properties. Jacobs ‘builds’ his compositions on canvas, slowly adding and removing layers until the pieces resolve themselves. He distills his imagery down to elemental forms, stripping imagery down to its rudiments. Narratives can reveal themselves along the way, these can derive from the imagination or may includes historical and cultural references. One series of paintings are influenced by the films of Andrei Tarkovsky, while another set explores Y Wladychfa Gymreig – The establishment of a Welsh colony in Patagonia during the (1800s). 

“The tension between abstraction and pictorial representation stimulates my creativity and fuels my imagination. A canvas seems to have a life of its own and I am happy to let it take me in the direction it wants to go”.

Phillip has had a number of solo and group exhibitions throughout the country and has works in private collections in the UK and USA. He currently works out of the Elysium Gallery Studios.