Tom Phillips : A Humument + Iris Murdoch + Ginkgo leaves

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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