Howard Phipps, RWA: SWE: painter, printmaker and illustrator, was born in 1954. He studied painting and printmaking at Cheltenham Art College, 1971-75. Worked in West Devon from 1976-80 before moving to Salisbury where he now lives.
Howard Phipps has exhibited widely in group and one-man shows including well-received exhibitions at the Dorset County Museum in 1993 and 1998, The Victoria Art Gallery, Bath, Salisbury Museum, Cheltenham Art Gallery, The Bleddfa Centre in Wales and Elgin Fine Art, Phipps is a member of The Royal West of England Academy and the Society of Wood Engravers. He has been a frequent exhibitor at R.A Summer Exhibitions where he was awarded the Christie’s Contemporary Print Award for a colour wood engraving. In 2004 he received the Landscape Engraving Prize at The National Print Exhibition in London, for the second successive year.