Howard Phipps

 

Howard Phipps studied Fine Art at the Gloucestershire College of Art in Cheltenham.  He is a painter/printmaker with a special interest in wood engraving.

A member of the Royal West of England Academy since 1979, and the Society of Wood Engravers since 1985, he has also been a frequent exhibitor at Royal Academy summer exhibitions where he received the Contemporary Print Award for colour engraving.  In 2003 & 2004 he received the landscape print prize at the National Print Exhibition in London.

He has illustrated books for Bloomsbury, Century, The Fleece Press, Perdix Press, Country Life Magazine and The Folio Society (Charlotte Bronte, Shakespeare and Tennyson's Lady of Shalott).  His closest collaboration has been with The Whittington Press who published Stubble Burning (1982) with poems by Roland Gant.  They have since published three more books of his wood engravings - Interiors (1985), Further Interiors (1992), The Ebble Valley (2007).

Howard Phipps has a particular interest in the downland landscape of Wiltshire and Dorset.  His drawings are all made on location and the resulting wood engravings create an image which captures a recognisable spirit of place. 

Please see our blogposts - A Short Walk With Howard Phipps and To Win Green.  Also - Cutting It Fine - which has a link to an interview with Howard on BBC Radio 4.  In 2022, Howard's engravings and linocuts shared the Rowley Gallery window with Robert Newton's oil paintings - A March Window

Solo Exhibitions

2022
A March Window, The Rowley Gallery, London
2021
Cutting It Fine, The Salisbury Museum, Salisbury
2020
Open Country, The Rowley Gallery, London
2018
Howard Phipps: Wood Engravings & Linocuts, The Rowley Gallery, London
2016
Out of the Wood, The Art Stable, Child Okeford
2014
Cassian De Vere Cole Fine Art, London
2010
Gilbert White's House, Selborne
The Art Stable, Child Okeford
2008, 2001
St Barbe Gallery, Lymington
2006, 2002
Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt
2004, 1998, 1993
Dorset County Museum, Dorchester
1997
Cheltenham Art Gallery
Cassian De Vere Cole Fine Art, London
1994
Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
Salisbury Museum

Group Exhibitions

2016
The Arborealists, St Barbe Gallery, Lymington
2015
Black To White, City Space, Winchester
Arborealists: The Art of Trees, Mottisfont Abbey
Arboretum, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol
2013
Under The Greenwood, St Barbe Gallery, Lymington
Awake Through Years, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter
2010
Originals, Mall Galleries, London (Prizewinner)
2022, 2019, 2017, 2015, 2014, 2012, 2011, 2009, 2007, 2006, 2002, 1999, 1998, 1994, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1986, 1985
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy, London
2002
Nature From Wood, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath
1997
20th Century Wood Engraving, Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter

 

  • A Beech Shaded Hollow, Cranborne Chase by Howard Phipps
  • A Bend In The River by Howard Phipps
  • A Corner Of The Garden by Howard Phipps
  • A Green Lane, Exmoor by Howard Phipps
  • A Primrose Bank by Howard Phipps
  • A Silver Diadem, The Provençal Thistle by Howard Phipps
  • A Still Morning, Midsummer by Howard Phipps
  • Aldeburgh Beach by Howard Phipps
  • Aldeburgh Shoreline by Howard Phipps
  • Ambling Hare by Howard Phipps
  • Ashcombe In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Avenue Of Trees Near Poitiers by Howard Phipps
  • Avon Water Meadows In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Beached Boats, Penberth by Howard Phipps
  • Beach's Bookshop, Salisbury by Howard Phipps
  • Beech Tree Cloister by Howard Phipps
  • Boxing Hares by Howard Phipps
  • Boxwood Engraving by Howard Phipps
  • Bulbarrow Hill, Blackmore Vale, Dorset by Howard Phipps
  • Burrow Mump, Somerset Levels by Howard Phipps
  • Canterbury Stonemason by Howard Phipps
  • Catherine's Barn by Howard Phipps
  • Chalk Hill Drove by Howard Phipps
  • Chesil Beach by Howard Phipps
  • Chesil Boatman by Howard Phipps
  • Chilcombe by Howard Phipps
  • Clearbury Ring From Homington Down by Howard Phipps
  • Clearbury Ring From Tower House Meadow by Howard Phipps
  • Corner Alcove, The Glebe House by Howard Phipps
  • Cotswold Field Barn by Howard Phipps
  • Cottage Interior, Cornwall by Howard Phipps
  • Ebbesbourne Wake, Wiltshire by Howard Phipps
  • Ebble Valley Oak by Howard Phipps
  • Edge Of The Wood, Broadchalke by Howard Phipps
  • Eggardon by Howard Phipps
  • Eggardon Hill by Howard Phipps
  • Faulston Tower by Howard Phipps
  • Field Barn Near Dovedale by Howard Phipps
  • Fifield Bavant, The Ebble Valley, Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Footbridge At Bishopstone by Howard Phipps
  • Garden Room by Howard Phipps
  • Hambledon Hill by Howard Phipps
  • Hambledon Hill In Summer by Howard Phipps
  • Hambledon Hill In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Hare Lane Pottery by Howard Phipps
  • Harvest Thanksgiving by Howard Phipps
  • Hawthorn On The Lynchets by Howard Phipps
  • Hill Farm by Howard Phipps
  • Homington Down by Howard Phipps
  • Homington Water Meadows by Howard Phipps
  • Houns-tout Cliff, Chapman's Pool by Howard Phipps
  • Interior, Manor Farm by Howard Phipps
  • Kitchen Garden Doorway by Howard Phipps
  • Knowle Hill, Broadchalke by Howard Phipps
  • Lavender Field, Bargème, Provence by Howard Phipps
  • Lewesdon Hill Beeches by Howard Phipps
  • Loscombe by Howard Phipps
  • Lynchets, Coombe Bissett Down by Howard Phipps
  • Malacombe Bottom by Howard Phipps
  • March Hare by Howard Phipps
  • Medieval Water Tower, Canterbury Cathedral by Howard Phipps
  • Melbury Beacon by Howard Phipps
  • Morning Sunlight, Whittington Court by Howard Phipps
  • Noon Day Shade by Howard Phipps
  • Norrington Ponds by Howard Phipps
  • Old Greenhouse, Little Bredy by Howard Phipps
  • Old Sarum In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Old Wardour Castle by Howard Phipps
  • Orford Meadows by Howard Phipps
  • Ox Drove by Howard Phipps
  • Ox Drove In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Packhorse Bridge, Provence by Howard Phipps
  • Pen-y-ghent by Howard Phipps
  • Pulpit Rock, Portland by Howard Phipps
  • River Alde At Iken by Howard Phipps
  • River Ebble At Fifield Bavant by Howard Phipps
  • Salisbury Cathedral (The Restoration) by Howard Phipps
  • Salisbury From Clarendon In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • Salisbury From King Manor Hill, Clarendon by Howard Phipps
  • Salisbury Water Meadows by Howard Phipps
  • Saltersford, A Moorland Farm by Howard Phipps
  • Seacombe by Howard Phipps
  • Selborne by Howard Phipps
  • Sgwd Yr Eira (Fall Of Snow) by Howard Phipps
  • Shepherd's Walk by Howard Phipps
  • St Paul's Churchyard, Covent Garden by Howard Phipps
  • Stonehenge, Rising Moon by Howard Phipps
  • Summer Fields, The Ebble Valley by Howard Phipps
  • Sunlit Doorway by Howard Phipps
  • Sunlit Window by Howard Phipps
  • Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire by Howard Phipps
  • Sweet Chestnut Trees by Howard Phipps
  • The Auctioneer's Gavel by Howard Phipps
  • The Avenue, Odstock, In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • The Avon Water Meadows In Winter by Howard Phipps
  • The Black House At Hengistbury Head by Howard Phipps
  • The Clarendon Way (Edge Of The Wood) by Howard Phipps
  • The Drawing Room, Barnsley House by Howard Phipps
  • The Jobbing Gardener by Howard Phipps
  • The Medlar Tree by Howard Phipps
  • The Print Room by Howard Phipps
  • The Printer's Chapel by Howard Phipps
  • The Whittington Press by Howard Phipps
  • The Workroom Window by Howard Phipps
  • Thomas Hardy's Study At Max Gate, Dorchester by Howard Phipps
  • Timbered Interior by Howard Phipps
  • Under Win Green by Howard Phipps
  • Walberswick by Howard Phipps
  • Wayside Ash Tree by Howard Phipps
  • Wetton Hill by Howard Phipps
  • Win Green From Berwick Down by Howard Phipps
  • Winkelbury Hill Fort by Howard Phipps
  • Winspit, Isle of Purbeck, Dorset by Howard Phipps
  • Winter Stubble Fields, Winkelbury Hillfort by Howard Phipps
  • Wistman's Wood by Howard Phipps
  • Wittenham Clumps by Howard Phipps
  • Wood On The Downs by Howard Phipps
  • Woodman by Howard Phipps