Jenny Phillips

British figurative painter

“Working from my studio in beautiful Argyle & Bute on the firth of Clyde, I paint the people, the scenery and the lifestyle of this wonderful area.”

Jenny Phillips

British figurative painter

Welcome!

“Working from my studio in beautiful Argyle & Bute on the firth of Clyde, I paint the people, the scenery and the lifestyle of this wonderful area.”

Paintings

Sail

Oil on canvas • For sale

Sometimes we have to wait until later in life to realise some dreams.

“Catch the wind in your sails, explore, dream, discover”

Mark Twain

Mermaid

Oil on canvas • Sold

Two cousins playing on the beach. They see a rock or a mermaid. The real and imagined childhood concepts of external objects not present to the senses. The stuff of legends.

A painting of a young girl laying in a field drawing a fairy

Aggie

Oil on canvas • Sold

“Do you believe in fairies? Say quickly that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands.”

M Barrie

A painting of a man with wings looking over the rooftops of a seaside town at the distant sun

Iccarus

Oil on canvas • Sold

Escaping your life can result in flying too close to the sun!

Emley Moor

Oil on canvas • Sold

The iconic Emley Moor, Yorkshire, site of the famous radio mast. This is my Yorkshire grandaughter, dancing, caught in time.

Dog Walkers

Oil on canvas • Sold

A gathering of dog walkers if not executed with care can result in pandemonium.

A painting of a packed beach where sunbathers are so packed together that you can barely see the sand

On The Beach

Oil on canvas • For sale

“Crowded beaches do not spread Covid” a government advisor says.

A painting of a group of people climbing a cliff, struggling to get to the top, with a stormy sky behind

Move On Up 1

Oil on canvas • For sale

During the pandemic there were some who cared little for the wellbeing of others. They were indifferent to strugglers, selfish and thoughtless. Users of people to reach their own goals yet unstable, baseless, lacking a strong moral foundation.

A painting of a group of people climbing a cliff, helping each other get to get to the top, with a calm sky behind

Move On Up 2

Oil on canvas • Sold

“At the end of the day, its not about what you have or either what you have accomplished.... it's about who you have lifted up, who you've made better, its about what you've given back”

Denzl Washington

A painting of a young girl standing at the top of a cliff holding a fishing rod, looking down at a selkie (top half human, bottom half seal) partly obscured by the rocks below, reaching up to the girl above

The Girl And The Selkie

Oil on canvas • Sold

Scottish folklore tells of selkies or seal people, who are half fish and half human. In the water they are seals but on land they shed their skins and take on human form. Selkies are often sighted by those living in remote coastal areas.

A painting of a your child balancing on top of a stack of rocks, looking out at lakes and small mountains in the distance

Balance Of Nature

Oil on canvas • Sold

A delicate state of equilibrium in nature, due to the constant interaction between living organisms and the environment, can be adversely effected by human intervention.

A painting of a local shop front with three sets of tango dancers and a guitarist

Tango At The Lido

Oil on canvas • For sale

Tango therapy - skin to skin, long pauses, stylized body positions, playful movement and intense expression. Romantic and lyrical, primal, fast and sensually disreputable.

A painting of the outside of the village hall in Innellan, with various groups of people hanging around, both old and young

Innellan Village Hall

Oil on canvas • For sale

For so long it lay dark and empty, trapped in a pandemic that forbade revellers. So in my imaginings it comes to life - friends gather, merrily drinking to celebrate better times.

A painting of a tree lined path where a group of people are dancing and tidying up

Yellow Chip Road

Oil on canvas • For sale

An intrepid group of locals gather at the weekends to plant, tidy, weed and titivate the village's green spaces. This they do with much joy and community passion.

A painting of three cyclings doing acrobatics on their bikes, on a riverside path, with the river in the background

Cyclists

Oil on canvas • Sold

Persons riding bicycles expertly, wearing lycra.

A painting of a commerical kitchen where a chef juggles knives in the foreground and chefs prepare food in the background

The Osbourne Kitchen

Oil on canvas • Sold

Getting out the orders is always a juggling act even with an ubiquitous soux chef. The enigmatic parrot looks on.

A painting of a busy restaurant with various people laughing and drinking and a river visible in the background through the windows

The Osbourne Restaurant

Oil on canvas • Sold

The hedonistic pleasure of unrestrictedly feeding one's face among friends.

“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful”

Mae West

Hug

Oil on canvas • Sold

Holding someone tightly in one's arms, comforting and consoling. This was my virtual hug during hard times.

A painting of a happy man in a garden kneeling to harvest vegetables

Roots

Oil on canvas • For sale

'Zipping up my boots
Going back to my roots, yeah!'

Odyssey

A painting of a young lady in the depths of the jungle holding up her smart phone

Charlie in the Jungle

Oil on canvas • Sold

Smart Phones are miracles, they turned us into gods

A painting of a fisherman sitting in a boat extracting a pearl from an oyster with fishermen diving into the sea in the background from other boats

Pearl Fishermen of the Clyde

Oil on canvas • For sale

'With all the will in the world
Diving for dear life
When we could be diving for pearls'

Robert Wyatt

Shipbuilding

A painting of two people in a desolate landscape looking at a danelion

Dandelion

Oil on canvas • For sale

So I took a breath
And made a wish
And blew them all away

Gabbie Hanna

A painting of a group of ladies bunched together, singing and seemingly floating with another lady conducting them, on a beach with the sea in the background

Seal Lullaby

Oil on canvas • For sale

'The Seal Lullaby
Where billow meets billow
Then soft be thy pillow
Oh weary wee flippers
Current thy ease
The storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee
Asleep in the arms of the slow swinging sea'

Eric Whitacre

A painting of a group of sad people eating snacks looking at an eagle sitting in its nest filled with discarded wrappers

Sea Eagle

Oil on canvas • For sale

Sea Eagles habitats have experienced particularly threats given the context of human impacts on the environment

Swimming

Oil on canvas • For sale

There is litter in the air
There is litter over there
There is litter on the tree
There is litter by the sea
There is litter on the sand
There is litter in my hand
There is litter by the house
There is litter by the mouse
It's smelly & it's grimy too
I wouldn't throw it, was it you?

Ava D aged 8

Bus Stop

Oil on canvas • For sale

Every day I get in the queue (too much - magic bus)
To get on the bus that takes me to you (too much - magic bus)

Pete Townsend

A painting of an angry young person with clenched fist pointing out towards the viewer, with stormy clouds in the background

Nemesis

Oil on canvas • For sale

You are failing us. But young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say:we will never forgive you.

Greta Thunburg

A painting of a thoughtful looking lady sitting in an armchair floating in the sky

Reverie

Oil on canvas • For sale

A state of being pleasantly lost in one's thoughts

A painting of a man laying on his back with arms and legs in the air on top of carpet of pumpkins

Pumpkin Man

Oil on canvas • For sale

Peter Peter Pumpkin eater
Had a wife & couldn't keep her
He put her in a Pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.

Nemesis

Oil on canvas • For sale

You are failing us. But young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say:we will never forgive you.

Greta Thunburg