![]() Having later become renowned for his experience as an award-winning tattoo artist, Mike uses his unique skills with the needle and applies them to his art. Unbeknown to him at the time, learning this valuable skill would later give him the resilience, confidence, and conviction to pursue other endeavours, including his passion for creating art. Whilst years passed and his artistic voice remained unacted, Mike found a new passion in the form of skateboarding. It’s with this influence, he discovered his unique artistic voice. It was in this phase of his life he began to meticulously watch his peers, observing their personalities and recognising the naturalpatterns they exhibited. Growing up on a Council Estate in Birmingham, Mikebecame absorbed by the environment in which he lived so much so that he became known as ‘Silent Mike’. The result is a metamorphic new variety of composition. ![]() ![]() It is with that thought he established what he describes as Geo-Realism.īy overlaying a geometric pattern to the base of his medium, he seeks to fuse seamless and ornate patterns with valued realist works to demonstrate the deep harmonic connection geometry shares with emotion, mind, and nature. Mike, much like the artists who influenced his works, is on a quest to create art which transcends the centuries. Quantus Gallery announces a metamorphic new solo exhibition by up-and-coming artist Mike Philp.ĭebuting his first winter collection at Quantus Gallery, Introspective presents a series of achromatic and geometric multi-media compositions that seek to explore the depths of emotion, mind, and nature – giving a new perspective to the way in which we view art.Ĭonceived from the timeless work of Michelangelo and Bernini, Mike takes the stylised perfection of their works and others, to overlay a geometric pattern constructed from a range of perfect lines and angles to explore an individual depth that gives light to the omnipresent and consistent existence of geometry and shape in nature.
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