Philippe Aird 'Eye of the Beholder' 30 June 2007

Philip Aird is a contemporary artist who lives and works in the UK

Philip Aird is a contemporary artist who lives and works in the UK. As a child he was taught by LS Lowry, a family friend, and shown various drawing a paining techniques by Harold Riley. He attended Chelsea School of Art from 1980 to 1983, having won a scholarship on the grounds of exceptional talent. During his time there he won the first Time Out International Video Festival award and featured in a BBC ‘Forty Minutes’ documentary. Further success followed, as Philippe made significant developments in his own style and methodology with a series of shows in America, London and Edinburgh, interspersed with travel scholarships to Spain, Paris and the USA. During this time he absorbed and applied new techniques to broaden and strengthen his artistic skills

Phillipe continued to push the boundaries of creative expression and it was during this time that he began paining in the nude, through which he freed himself from constraints, allowing the creative process to become the art itself.

Hi sees his life as a journey of discovery and is constantly exploring and challenging himself to greater heights (and depths) of expression. Working intuitively, but with the most solid of foundations, Phillipe strives to reflect the forces at work in nature and his current work is inspired to a large degree by macro and microscopic images from the human biology and the cosmos.

Phillipe's work is in public and private collections in Spain, the USA, Canada, Australia and Japan

The work on display in the gallery has been conceived as pairs. The pigment flows from one canvas to the other, forming tenuous links and contacts. The white ground of the canvas is at one negative space bt supports the fluid structure by its absence. References to cosmology are apparent and become more intricate with sustained viewing.