Phillip Jacobs
The Uncanny Valley
A selection of artworks inspired by the landscape of South Wales
Artist Statement My current work is mainly concerned with the landscape. I use abstraction, to varying degrees, as a method and the landscape experience as a source. My references range from the geological and natural history of a place right through to industrialisation and how human activity has left its mark on the landscape. The sublime and existential concerns are also subjects I try to explore, as these are fundamental considerations when one is confronted by the sheer expansiveness and intensity of the landscape. The creative process itself is also as much a part of the development of a work, no matter how much I plan I never truly know what the end results will be. The tension between abstraction and pictorial representation is an incredibly exciting place to be and it is this that drives my creativity. Paul Klee - “Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes visible.�
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The artist’s studio in Swansea 3
Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 120 x 49cm
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Red Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Landform Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 30cm
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Landform Lines Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Landform Blue Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Twilight Acrylic on canvas. 76 x 51cm
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Landform (Black & White) Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 30cm
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Landform Shapes Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Blue Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 100 x 40cm
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Earth Structure Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 30cm
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Landform (Deep Red) Acrylic on canvas. 70 x 50cm
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Landform Flow Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Red Landform Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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River Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Pool Acrylic on canvas. 50 x 50cm
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Valley: Contour & Seams Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Twilight: Welsh Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 30cm
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Landform - Ochre Acrylic on canvas. 61 x 46cm
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Red Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 100 x 30cm
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Ochre Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 80 x 30cm
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The Red Landscape Acrylic on canvas. 100 x 30cm
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White River Acrylic on canvas. 100 x 40cm
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Old Workings Acrylic on canvas. 100 x 30cm
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Welsh born artist Phillip Jacobs gained a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton, specialising in painting and printmaking. He then went on to study for a HND in Multi-disciplinary Computer Applications in Carmarthen College of Art and Technology. It was during this time he first realised the full potential of Apple Mac computers within the creative arts. He later studied for an MSc in Interactive Media in Swansea Institute (now University of Wales Trinity Saint David), where he developed and designed interactive/time-based artworks. After a number of years working within the digital field he returned to painting in 2003 and has continued to paint and exhibit art ever since. He likes to divide his creative output between traditional analogue and experimental digital techniques. He is currently a part-time lecturer in art and design at Gower College Swansea.
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Solo Exhibitions 2014 Soft Mutations: Images of Land and Sea. Penarth Pier Pavilion, Penarth.
2016 Winter Exhibition Oriel Ceri Richards, Taliesin Art Centre, Swansea.
2012 Soft Mutations: City, Land & Sea. Oriel Lliw Gallery, Pontardawe Art Centre.
2016 The Artists of Berlin Las Swansea Museum
2009 Uncanny Lands The Muni Arts Centre, Pontypridd.
2015 Open studios exhibition Elysium Gallery, Swansea. 2015 The physical, the metaphysical and the astrophysical St donats Art Centre, St Donats Castle.
2006 The Singing Landscape Oriel Ceri Richards, Taliesin Art Centre, Swansea.
2015 The Blue Orchard Group Grand Theatre Arts Wing, Swansea.
Recent Group Exhibitions 2018 Opening Exhibition Queen Street Gallery, Neath
2014 Summer exhibition (6 Artists – Responding to the works of Dylan Thomas) Oriel Ceri Richards, Taliesin Art Centre, Swansea.
2017 Swansea Open Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
2014 Summer exhibition White Lion Street Gallery, Tenby.
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email: phillipjacobs@me.com For further information visit -
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PHILLIP JACOBS © 2018