Dan Phillips

We first met Dan when he visited the gallery. We had similar interests and thus blossomed a friendship.

It was when we were helping Dan pack up for a move to Austin that I first saw one of Dan's girl drawings. It rocked my world and he was gracious enough to pass the drawing on to me.

After that I kept up with Dan's drawings and we began to show them here in the gallery. His drawings are so detailed in their clothes and hair. Dan obviously loves a pretty girl and good do.

But Dan never never ceases to amaze us around here with his ideas.

He drawings have continued to grow in their complexity; and he has recently dedicated himself more to painting. His subjects have come to include the many things which hold his interests, such as antique carvings, ancient sailor artwork and emblems, tattoo design, antique victorian mourning engravings and faternal symbols.

In addition to his drawing and painting, Dan escaped Texas a couple of years and is now is a cabinet and furniture making graduate of North Bennet Street School, Boston Mass. His beautiful furniture making is what you find him doing most days.

His personal furniture style of design mimics his artwork to me; with it's directness, grace, and simiplicity yet both posessing such elegance in detail, complexity and spirit.

In between all of the wood work, drawing, and painting, Dan continues to play and create music which he has done for most of his life. True Widow is his current project for songwriting and creating sounds.

Around here we are looking forward to November of this year of 2010, when Dan takes over half of this big gallery space for a project encompassing his passions of painting and wood working to create one big Dan explosion.