Blue Geraniums 2015
Oil on canvas
39.5 x 39.5 cm
Signed and dated
Exhibited: The Norman Gallery, Wexford
"Colour is Phillipa's craft, beyond the taut compositions from the restrained palette of the early bottle and clay arrangements to the sheer exuberance of the prowling tigers, Phillipa has the habit of placing colours side by side that might otherwise squabble like jealous siblings. And yet, somehow they work. This has left me scratching my head, often, with the thought 'Why didn't I think of that?' It is finding these surprises in her layers of paint that keeps me returning to her works.
Phillipa paints what she loves. Carvings from Mexico. The flowers she grows. The birds of her tended garden, real and handmade. Perhaps it is this attachment which makes her compositions sing. " Excerpt: Begley, David, Philippa Bayliss, Bird Garden and Other Themes, NewtownBarry House Gallery, Wexford 2007
Item #4855
Price: $1,400.00