Bio

Born: Rumford, Maine

Education: Rumford High School 1971,University of Southern Maine, B.F.A., 1976

Awarded the Carina House Monhegan Artists Residency, 1996

Founding member, former Board Member and President of the Maine Outdoor Adventure Club. MOAC is an outing club 900 members strong, based in Portland and Bangor. It is the largest such club in Maine.

An avid backpacker, camper, photographer and amateur naturalist, Phil camps year round in the northeast, as far north as central Quebec and Labrador.

Advisory trustee and ongoing volunteer for Portland Trails, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a thirty mile system of trails linking Portland's park system.

As a recipient of the Carina House Monhegan Artist's Residency, Phil spent five weeks on Monhegan Island, painting and hiking the island's natural wonders in the summer of '96.

A singer songwriter, in the folk/blues tradition who plays out at coffeehouses when the mood strikes, but his dream is to produce his music in a professional recording studio. You can listen to Phil's new CD here

Pet peeve in art: the idolatry awarded the European impressionists while so many fine 19th century painters in the American idiom have languished in relative obscurity.

Influences:

• from the luminists, the idea of the landscape imbued with the spiritual
• Asher B. Durand, a highly underrated nineteenth century painter
• Neil Welliver helped Phil to see that it was O.K. to paint the interior.

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