Philip Muñoz English, b. 1980

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Biography
The subject of self-taught artist Philip Muñoz is the English west country, particularly Somerset, Devon and Cornwall. He concentrates on coastal scenes where the three elements of land, sea and sky come together. These skilful studies of topography and climate are each small essays evoking a specific time and place.

Muñoz works in oil on panel. His technique is cooly analytical and follows the descriptive tradition of representational painting. In certain passages, where a relaxed focus is appropriate, he allows the mark of the brush and its occasional gestural flourish to assert itself. We see this in the treatment of scudding clouds, wind-driven foliage and choppy seas. This makes for a contrast with more tightly rendered areas, such as those where people and structures require closer definition. Azure blues, sandy ochres and muted grass-greens are the basis of the painter’s palette, at times offset by deeper ultramarines, veridians and charcoal greys. The varying forms and textures of trees, rocks, water and field are described with a fluent hand.

 

The artist maps and defines the specific characteristics of each picturesque location. This group of pictures can be read sequentially and appears to describe a peripatetic journey into the West. Each composition is a named place and carries echoes of the tours undertaken by nineteenth century artists such as Cotman and Turner as they assembled their compendiums of British landscape. The essential difference between then and now is that Muñoz’s travels reveals a landscape devoted as much to leisure and tourism as to agriculture and industry.

 

These images are emphatically calm and contemplative. The painter revels in the joy of his quiet appraisal and takes pleasure in a virtuoso application of oil paint. He invites us to take the tour.

Works
  • Avon Estuary, Bantham
    Avon Estuary, Bantham, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    60 x 60 cm
    23.6 x 23.6 in
  • Bantham Beach from Coastal Path
    Bantham Beach from Coastal Path, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    50 x 50 cm
    19.7 x 19.7 in
  • Burgh Island from Coastal Path
    Burgh Island from Coastal Path, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    78 x 61 cm
    30.7 x 24 in
  • Mothecombe Beach
    Mothecombe Beach, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    61 x 61 cm
    24 x 24 in
  • Readymoney Cove, Fowey
    Readymoney Cove, Fowey, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    60 x 60 cm
    23.6 x 23.6 in
  • Salcombe Harbour from East Portlemouth Beach
    Salcombe Harbour from East Portlemouth Beach, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    50 x 50 cm
    19.7 x 19.7 in
  • South Sands, Salcombe
    South Sands, Salcombe, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    50 x 50 cm
    19.7 x 19.7 in
  • Thurlestone Beach
    Thurlestone Beach, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    60 x 60 cm
    23.6 x 23.6 in
  • Thurlestone Rock from South Milton Sands
    Thurlestone Rock from South Milton Sands, 2024
    Oil on marine plywood
    60 x 60 cm
    23.6 x 23.6 in
  • Salcombe Harbour
    Salcombe Harbour, 2022
    Oil on marine plywood
    50 x 50 cm
    19.7 x 19.7 in
  • Symonds Yat, Autumn Colours
    Symonds Yat, Autumn Colours, 2022
    Oil on marine plywood
    50 x 50 cm
    19.7 x 19.7 in
  • Symonds Yat, Lower Viewpoint
    Symonds Yat, Lower Viewpoint, 2022
    Oil on marine plywood
    46 x 46 cm
    18 x 18 in
  • Girl with Flower Tattoos
    Girl with Flower Tattoos, 2019
    Oil on linen
    60 x 60 cm
    23.6 x 23.6 in
  • Millie with Dark Lips
    Millie with Dark Lips, 2019
    Oil on board
    50 x 50 cm
    19.7 x 19.7 in
  • A Look Within
    A Look Within, 2018
    Oil on canvas
    60 x 60 cm
    23.6 x 23.6 in
  • Co Exist
    Co Exist, 2018
    Oil on linen
    65 x 65 cm
    25.6 x 25.6 in
  • How Many, More
    How Many, More, 2018
    Oil on linen
    90 x 90 cm
    35.4 x 35.4 in
  • More Than You Need
    More Than You Need, 2018
    Oil on linen
    120 x 120 cm
    47.2 x 47.2 in
  • Pink, Blue and Red
    Pink, Blue and Red, 2018
    oil and enamel on linen
    65 x 65 cm
    25 5/8 x 25 5/8 in
  • Cover My Eyes
    Cover My Eyes, 2016
    oil on linen
    50 x 75 cm
    19.7 x 29.5 in
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