Peter Phillips (artist)

When he was awarded a Harkness Fellowship he moved to New York, where he exhibited alongside American counterparts Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein and James Rosenquist.

He was particularly aligned to American culture and reflected its commercial iconography and aggressive advertising style in his dynamic montage paintings.

In 1962 he was one of the subjects of a BBC TV Monitor programme Pop Goes the Easel directed by Ken Russell, along with Peter Blake, Pauline Boty and Derek Boshier.

In 1964, Phillips was awarded the Harkness Fellowship, which brought him to New York where he lived from 1964 until 1966 and while there travelled throughout the United States with his close friend, Allen Jones.

In 1970, Peter Phillips married Claude Marion Xylander and they made frequent trips throughout Africa, the Far East, and the United States.

The decade of the nineties brought Phillips' work to Canada and the United States, for exhibitions in Montreal, Boston, Houston, and New York.

At the same time, Phillips built and expanded his property in Majorca to his own design, which has been featured in numerous architecture, gardening, and home magazines.