Phillip Martin (artist)

Phillip John Martin (1927–2014) was a visionary painter working with collage and sculpture.

[1] Phillip Martin... defined by the well-known French critic Alain Jouffroy: “the Gandhi of modern painting”.

Martin had started painting in London in 1948 also encouraged by his painter friend Alan Davie, a little older than him.

Michel Tapié acquire many affiches, presents them in June at Galerie Facchetti;[2] Les signifiants de l’informel[3] with Camille Bryen, Donati, Gillet, Mathieu, Pollock, Riopelle, and Jaroslav Serpan.Works for six months in Connemara, Ireland and meet Gerard Dillon.

1953–1956 Phillip Martin and his wife Helen Marshall work on their paintings in Positano, Ischia, Florence where they meet Roberto Matta 1956–57 Work in South of France, Aix en Provence meet André Masson and Pierre Alechinsky.

He exhibits in Mumbai at the Jehangir Art Gallery, with Helen Marshall and Bhupen Khakhar.