David Phillips

David Phillips (born 1964, Brighton) is a British painter who lives and works in London. Best known for building sweeping panoramas from postcard-sized oil panels, he treats each card as a single brush-stroke in a wider visual sentence, stitching them into wall-spanning grids that recall both Edwardian picture-postcard albums and contemporary Instagram feeds. His motifs revolve around the mutable English landscape—estuaries, allotments, motorway verges—filtered through the fugitive colour of memory and travel ephemera. Phillips’s postcard works have been shown at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Jerwood Space and, most recently, featured on WMUK’s Art Beat series (2025) in connection with his touring project A Landscape in Post Cards. Public acquisitions include the V&A’s Word & Image Department and the Yale Center for British Art, while his smaller panels are avidly sought in contemporary auctions, giving him a quietly liquid market. He received the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize (2018) and was shortlisted for the John Moores Painting Prize in 2020.