Phils art
'The chief enemy of creativity is good sense' Sisab Alcopop'
Here is a recent exhibition at Ty Medi in Machynlleth. All funds go to charity, so you and I will be helping someone out.
Come to my studio, I live in Machynlleth - this old chap is playing the piano outside my house. Give me call 07530 100780
Fields 2 £500
My biggest adventure so far . £2000. What can you see.?
Philfab1@gmail.com
Where's the f in fish? £180
This one is a small box top, full of detail and a 'fish' sign on a building... the f has dropped off.
Smattering.
Made some years ago, I finally got to finish this small image of Machynlleth from Penrallt (The hill above).
The snow has fallen. It was based on a photo by John Mason our local photographer, fisherman scientist and sage.
It was an early experiment I wish I could have made it better John.
Mounted on a 300 year old piece of gnarled oak.
Sept 2024... What a blow, we just heard that John has passed away, and I never showed him the picture... agh.
He was such a treasure, friend to many, engaged in so many ways with science, writing, fishing, poetry and our community.
I used a photo of John taken by Julie Bromilow-Nicklen to make this simple picture.
Coed Cat.£280
This small piece took weeks to make with veneer that I previously painted with patterns, (I never paint after the pieces are fixed.) There are hundred of splinters and tiny circles.
My Granddaughter Bonnie suggested it needed a figure, so I added the cat (coed means wood in Welsh)
Blown away - Sold at 2024 MOMA - Tabernacle arts exhibition.
Some pictures I get very attached to. This one took a while and is based on an image by Kyffin Williams. The theme was a 'A windy day'.
The picture - all made from scrap veneer, has bits missing and they are floating around in the wind or sticking out from the picture and on the frame.
Stoned - £380- hanging in my studio.
His head is full of.. stones and,
well, he's happy and so am I.
The red barn.
£380
Several smaller images like this are between £25 and £100
Shear £180
SOLD
This is Erosimous - I made up the word as I couldnt find one in the dictionary to suit.
Its hanging rather wonkily in my studio.
Its somewhere between £280 and £380.
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Wreck
Like where's Wally, but with a fishy twist.
This one took ages, I painted the bubbly water and then cut it up and blended it to look like sunken wrecks, sea shore, Octopus? rocks and surf.
£1250 it took forever to make and looks really original and interesting. Hope you like it.
Seren Dipedy £ 180
Revelation.
Based on some evocative watercolours by Mike Jones from The Swansea valley. I like leaving the slithers and splinters at the bottom. £1000
Hull -Sold
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This took several weeks to complete, trying to convey the idea of fields and a distant village but in a very abstract way. The textures and colours of the individual pieces are very strong. 'Fields' is £500 all proceeds to charity. SOLD
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'Brainbox' is £380. Here is a video of how I made it.
size is 60 x 60 cm SOLD
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'Where are we now' £ you say
80 x60
How did I manage to make the frame look wonky???
This one is really cute.'Chicken feed' is smaller than my usual work. It still took fifteen hours and 500 pieces. £180
Cats Whiskers £380 about 60cm square
First the segmenting sketch -based on an image by Kyffin Williams.
SOLD
'Where is my hippocampus' now framed framed £380 SOLD
This an experiment and is based on a drawing I found online by Taeyhung.
Disecting and simplifying the subject into blocks using simple lines and then finding the right texture to fill in the grid.
Thin Slithers , Fat Chance and secrets of sheep. SOLD
The men were based on the shapes of Kyffin Williams figures,
their old house is in the distance, they are discussing their favorite topic.
Bird Rock. £380
Ddim ar werth 3. (means ' not for sale ')
It's referring to 'Wales is not for sale'
This is an enlarged section of the picture.
Its made from very knarled old veneer thats been left out in the rain
There's a lot of detail in this picture. Lots of shapes and hills, valleys and
rivers that unfold as you look into it. The snow is coming.
54 x 38 £280
Sold at MOMA, Tabernacle Arts Centre
Talyllyn- SOLD
This is a small section of the picture- it's made of many tiny pieces of old laminate from furniture and pianos
Sideways. SOLD
What is it? You decide. POA
Refugees?
£380
Home and hills £you say
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Estuary £380 sold
Kyffin's boys 2.SOLD
Framed 30 cm square. £90
A rough but in a way, that makes it more arty don't you think?
Kyffin's boys n dogs SOLD
Framed rough.
30cm x 35cm £50
Ddim ar werth. SOLD
In Welsh, that means 'not for sale'.
Here is a link to how I made the picture.
35 x 40 cm , made from tiny pieces of wood.
Dad, I don't want to be a farmer!
Small pieces of old wood and plaster of paris.
The poor young guy wants to be a poet,
he doesn't even like sheep.
Sold, thanks Chris and happy Birthday Jane.
Funds will go towards the Plas entrance in Machynlleth
Gazing at the sail. SOLD
I leave old furniture out in the rain.
When it has fallen apart, I split the laminations and find interesting gnarled pieces to add to the picture.
In my minds eye, this was Borth. Two people watch the sail as the tide tumbles in.
Please expand the picture to see the huge amount of tiny detail.
It measures 60 x 75 cm inc the frame.
£500
Layers
Sold
Industry
I was trying to get the feel of a Welsh valley town in the time of satanic mills.
Made from old furniture veneer
60 x 48 cm
£380 SOLD
Borth Box 1
Sold
The price of sheep.
At the farmers mart
the heads are in a huddle
the dogs suspect a fart
and sip a muddy puddle. .SOLD
Baldfest 1
The beaky people gather,
oh they have such fun
buffed up alopecians
shining in the sun.
SOLD
Baldfest 2 (Metal)
The Angels let their hair down
the pony tails are gone
all they have is eyebrows
to save them from the sun.
SOLD
These are lovely cards. 150mm square.
£2 each. All funds go to the guys at MWRA who put themselves in harms way and spend sleepless nights helping people blown from their homes philfab1@gmail.com