PHILTH

Phill Blake is a multidisciplinary creative originally from Coventry, currently residing in the Oxfordshire countryside. His work includes graffiti and street art, graphic design, illustration, fine art, textiles and surface pattern design and interior and exterior mural paintings.

Taking inspiration from nature as well as our rich history of art and design, in particular the arts and crafts movement art nouveau and gothic revival have inspired his more recent direction.

Having a background in both streetart and also studying design and then illustration has led Phill to seek to blur the lines between art and design in his work, an interest in geometry and more recently getting into ornamental repeat pattern work, has allowed him to further explore the idea of the balance between nature and culture and order and chaos both literally and metaphorically. The flowers and plants in the work are representative of nature or chaos and the structure of the pattern represents culture or order, as it attempts to restrain nature into a structure using both left brain logic and reductive reasoning and right brain creativity simultaneously in an attempt to achieve harmony.