Philip Tyler

Philip Tyler trained in Fine Art at Loughborough College of Art and Design as well as Virginia Commonwealth University and completed his MA in Printmaking in Brighton in 1990, where he is currently course leader of BA Fine Art Printmaking as well as a visiting tutor aqt West Dean.

His first book Drawing and Painting the Nude was published in October 2015 by The Crowood Press. His second book on drawing and painting landscape was published in 2017 and his third book Procreate Landscpes on the iPad was published in 2025 which all draw from his extensive teaching in HE and FE. His primary research interests is around drawing and drawing pedagogy.

His work explores the relationship between the materiality of painting and its potential to act as a cypher for grief and loss. He has exhibited in the NEAC, ING Discerning Eye, Royal Institute of Oil Painters, The Lynn Painter-Stainers prize, The Garrick Milne Prize, The Royal Overseas league, East, The National Open and the Whitworth young contemporaries' competitions.

His work is in both public and private collections in this country as well as in America Australia Finland Hong Kong and Sweden, as well as Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Peterborough Museum, University of Essex: Modern and Contemporary British Art Collection, Essex, Worthing Museum and Art Gallery, Yale Centre for British Art and the Priseman Seabrook Collection.