Phil
Greenwood was born in 1943 in Dolgellau, North Wales and now lives in Kent.
Educated at Harrow and Hornsey Colleges of Art, he went on to
teach and lecture in printmaking for a short time and since 1971 has been a
professional artist/printmaker.
Since the early 1960s he has exhibited extensively throughout this
country and abroad, both in one man shows and as a contributor to many major
exhibitions.
A regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy and the Bankside Gallery,
home of the prestigious Royal Society of Painters-Etchers, he has also
exhibited work at the British Embassy in Brussels; La Jeune Gravure
Contemporaine, Paris; British Council Gallery, Athens; the Victoria and Albert
Museum and Tate Gallery, London; Galerie Deux Tetes, Canada; Royal Glasgow Institute
of Fine Arts; Portfolio Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; and more recently he
has held major exhibitions in Tokyo and Osaka, the USA and CCA Galleries in
London.
His work is in many private and public collections, including a
vast number of museums, education authorities and universities, such as the
Tate Gallery, Arts Council, British Council, Greenwich Museum, Edinburgh
Education Authority, Liverpool University and Loughborough College of
Education.
Greenwood works mainly on copper plates. His work is
extremely economical in that he usually uses only two plates and two or three
colours to achieve a great range of tone and colour by the depth of the etch
and by overprinting and fusing one colour with another. His images do not
always relate to a specific place - he develops and works with an amalgamation
of ideas recalled. The atmosphere exemplified by the landscape is the important
factor.
His work has been used by the National Trust as well as in books
such as the Encyclopedia of Printing, Art of Drawing and Painting and articles
and front cover illustrations for Leisure Painter. Unicef and H. Ling have used
his work on greetings cards, Deutsche Grammophon on CDs and Sanyo featured his
work on their 1995 company calendar. Also in 1995 the Bankside gallery
commissioned him to produce their 'Friends' Print'.
Phil Greenwood was invited to become an Associate of the Royal
Society of Painters-Etchers in 1972 and elected a Fellow in 1982.