Wynslo Phillips, Jemmotts Lane, St. Michael, Barbados, West Indies. Ph.435-2606, email: wynslo@caribsurf.com

About Myself:
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Birthdate - June 30, 1948, Barbados.

Comments:

Hartley Alleyne-Marshall, former Head of Department, Division of Fine Arts, Barbados Community College, December 12, 2006

"Wynslo Phillips has been art teacher, journalist, gallery manager and now full-time artist. I have had the privilege of following
his work in all of these areas. He brought to the familiar Barbadian landscape painting an element of fantasy hitherto unknown
in local art circles. It was bold, bright and imaginative. He infused a spirit of joy, pleasure and playfulness that made the
viewer re-evaluate his perception of his own fields and hills.
In his seascapes however, he offers up clear, pristine vistas more objectively rendered with no superfluous detal, no infusion
of fantasy, but these works all inform and delight".

Carolle Bourne, art reviewer, Weekend Nation, Barbados, January 26, 2007

"The late 19th century American artist Winslow Homer couldn't get enough of the ocean in the paintings he did during the
latter half of his life. This is something quite similar for native son Wynslo Phillips who finds himself with a similar 'addiction'
in the 21st century.
Homer's work has been described as "quasi-impressionistic" which loosely translated can be seen as realism that's not
totally real...And in many, that added to the overall appeal. This can be also be said of Phillips.
You are drawn as you gaze at this new collection showing solo at the Barbados Arts Council's Pelican Gallery right
up to February 3. Titled "Oistins Bay and Other Places", the artist moves from Oistins to Dover, Sandy Lane, Bathsheba,
even including imaginary landscapes with his famous 'lollipop' trees.
Could he be saying how sweet island life is? It's been ages since the sea has looked so inviting as when Phillips paints it".

Lilian Sten, Art reviewer, Sunday Sun, Barbados, February 4, 2007
 
Wynslo Phillips is a landscape artist who has gradually developed an intensely personal style. He works with acrylics, a versatile
medium which lends itself to bright colors and sharp definitions of line and space, but is also capable of textual variations on an
almost acrobatic scale.
Phillips specializes in overhead perspectives, the vistas of fishing beaches and fields as if observed from a hovering helicopter,
or, as is sometimes suggested, from a spiritual perspective.
His current exhibition at the Barbados Arts Council gallery includes several of his Bajan fishing beaches. These are
attractive works with their own diagonal sweep of sad and sea and a staccato of beached boats leading the eye into
a crescendo of coconut trees and brightly colored cottages.
Phillips structures these paintings in the manner of Japanese wood cuts which were one of the main influences on
Western art in the late 19th century, an which still remain a source of inspiration today. Some earlier works are
landscapes in which the conventional rendition of trees and sugarcane are interspaced with red, heart-shaped lollipop trees.
But the main body of Phillips leans towards a more realistic interpretation of the Barbadian landscape. He has conducted
a systematic visual survey of Barbados beaches, and the result is a comprehensive and aesthetically pleasing report.
Phillips' paintings take the viewer on a journey from Dover to Cattlewash, via Oistins, Inch Marlowe, the Crane and
Ragged Point. Each stop is illustrated with a vivid and detailed description of its unique characteristics.
Thus the modern, the old-fashioned and the neither-here-nor-there are treated with equal consideration. Phillips has a keen
eye, a steady hand and an unmistakable love for the subjects at hand. He combines established formulas with observed
and personal expressions.

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