Phillippa Ecobichon was born in Shropshire in 1949. Her education began at the Bath Academy of Art in 1968 before she completed an MA at the University of Sussex in 1974.
Her solo exhibitions include Spectro Arts Workshop Gallery, Newcastle (1973), Sunderland Arts Centre (1978), Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield (1981) and Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff (1983).
Group Shows include An Element of Landscape, Arts Council UK Tour (1974) and British Council French Tour (1977), Artists Overland, Arnolfini, Bristol (1975) Krakow Print Biennale (1976) and Un Certain Art Anglais, Musee d’Art Modern, Paris (1979).
Between 1975 and 1976 Ecobichon worked as a lecturer in printmaking at The South Downs College, Hampshire before becoming Fine Art Fellow at University of Southampton.
She lives and works in the Isle of Wight.

Glossary

  • Landscape

    Landscape is one of the principle genres of Western art. In early paintings the landscape was a backdrop for the composition, but in the late 17th Century the appreciation of nature for its own sake began with the French and Dutch painters (from whom the term derived). Their treatment of the landscape differed: the French tried to evoke the classical landscape of ancient Greece and Rome in a highly stylised and artificial manner; the Dutch tried to paint the surrounding fields, woods and plains in a more realistic way. As a genre, landscape grew increasing popular, and by the 19th Century had moved away from a classical rendition to a more realistic view of the natural world. Two of the greatest British landscape artists of that time were John Constable and JMW Turner, whose works can be seen in the Tate collection (www.tate.org.uk). There can be no doubt that the evolution of landscape painting played a decisive role in the development of Modernism, culminating in the work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists . Since then its demise has often been predicted and with the rise of abstraction, landscape painting was thought to have degenerated into an amateur pursuit. However, landscape persisted in some form into high abstraction, and has been a recurrent a theme in most of the significant tendencies of the 20th Century. Now manifest in many media, landscape no longer addresses solely the depiction of topography, but encompasses issues of social, environmental and political concern.