Painted surfaces become victims of an artist’s restless search for the essential thing that (s)he, and only (s)he, is able to say. Original works are broken down and intuitively taken to the edge of destruction, there to be rendered porous and abstract. While the paintings retain whispers and shadows of their former selves they re-emerge as vibrant and varied in terms of colour, sensitivity and formal concept.

By painting and un-painting is she negating reality or revealing one that is concealed?

Working in oils, sourcing from selected literature and nature, the artist draws on Northern Romanticism in terms of landscapes recalled, and passing from solid state to the ethereal.

Philippa Killen also known as Pippa, is a French artist, born in South Africa, working in Singapore since 2001. Trained as a sculptor and textile designer, Killen graduated her Masters in Fine Art Painting at LaSalle SIA College of the Arts 2006. Alongside her practice she teaches drawing, painting and ceramics.