A Humument Page 297 by Tom Phillips,
2nd version, with Ginkgo leaves
What is a Humument? More info and enlargement on my website, Art-page: click here.
From Tom Phillips's blogpost August 8, 2008:
"I am writing this in the nominal kitchen, an attic at the back overlooking a huge ginkgo tree which dominates the garden (a branch of which features in my portrait of Iris Murdoch). The smaller ginkgo seen here was planted in 1991 over my mother's ashes (for which, with the help of Jennifer Lee, I made a terracotta casket). "
Dame Iris Murdoch by Tom Phillips
with Ginkgo branch
Enlargement and more info on my website,
Art-page: click here.
Tom Phillips
is an English artist whose work is fuelled by several persistent preoccupations,
expressed through an even larger number of formats. These include painting
(both figurative and abstract), opera (composer, librettist, set designer),
concrete poetry and ornamental forms of writing, sculpture and site-specific
designs (mosaic, tapestry, wire frame objects). He has also taken on several
para-artistic roles – critic, curator, committee chairman for the Royal
Academy, translator - all of which he has folded back into his art. More
info here and here.
Photos courtesy Tom Phillips, thanks!
Humument: image © Tom Phillips 2015
Iris Murdoch: image © Tom Phillips 1986
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