Phyllis Mahon

In my work I want to get across a feeling, a memory, a transient mood, whether it is figurative, landscape or both. My childhood was spent in rural Northern Ireland, and I trained at Belfast College of Art in the 1970s, studying Painting & Printmaking. I feel that my artwork was greatly influenced by religious imagery in my childhood but since my early twenties my inspirations have been romantic love, literature and song lyrics - and more recently landscape. After living in a city environment for the best part of my youth and early adulthood, now the beauty of the landscape where I live in Lincolnshire has made an impact on me in its rolling forms and wide skies. Since graduating I have been a professional artist creating figurative, romantic works with woman and lovers as the subject. My early career was spent in London where I sometimes illustrated editorial as well as exhibiting widely through the UK & Ireland. In the early 1990s I moved to the Lincolnshire Wolds. Even though my artworks are still largely figurative in content, the trees & open skies of this beautiful landscape are making their presence felt. I like working in a variety of mediums: acrylic painting, watercolour on handmade paper, digital drawing on my iPad as well as occasionally carving in the local limestone. My works are in private collections in Australia, Europe, UK and USA. I paint almost every day and when not working I enjoy reading and swimming.