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For over twenty-five years Brenda Philips has been capturing the charm and beauty of our nation’s Oldest City on canvas. Often spotted around town sketching and painting, she is deservedly one of St. Augustine’s most successful and popular artists. Brenda is convinced that St. Augustine, with its old town, beaches, bay front, rivers, and yes, even tourists is an ideal environment for an artist. Inspiration for a new work is often just around the corner. She is best known for her Old City street scenes and Florida landscapes, but will just as readily return from a trip with images from far a field. Her principal works are in oil, a difficult but enduring medium. While mixing modern pigments no longer requires the knowledge of an alchemist, oil painting still demands advanced skills as practiced by the great masters. For this reason, oils reliably dominate the leader boards of the world’s auction houses. Brenda came to St. Augustine by way of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alaska to begin her art studies at Flagler College, the Florida School of the Arts, and the University of North Florida. Hard work, constant study, and continuing experimentation have led to the development of a distinctive North Florida style. The fluid brush strokes are strongly evocative of impressionism – perhaps this is no coincidence since Brenda is a great grandniece of Claude Monet! Her work may be seen in several fine galleries in Northeast and Southwest Florida and North Georgia.
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