portrait, studio, art, Canadian, pensive

1940 United Kingdom
1968 Emigrated to Canada

Price range: $960 – $16,000

Phil Darrah

I am engaged with percept and to a much lesser extent, concept.
What is happening visually in the world around me, instances of light, seasonal change, particularly in a rural environment, and a constant fascination with the raw materials of painting, provide for me, a compulsive collection of imperatives.

I work intuitively with changing thematic boundaries. The themes, for example “Beach Scenes”, or more recently “Palettes” often have quite prosaic origins but may come assume importance as they open pictorial territory. The stuff I work with is paint, opacity, translucency, surface, shape, scale change, placement and visual weight, etc.

“Is this blob big enough and what about that open area?” is the mundane conversation of making something.
Hopefully, something that transcends the ordinary and becomes sublime. – Phil Darrah

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Available Works

abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Code Magenta
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Vapour Trail
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Homage To Hugh Eakin
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Evergreen
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
New Years Day
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Barn Light
vertical, brown, abstract, floating, rust, blue purple
Tribute
beach, float, cloud, sand, Alberta art
Beach Palette
vertical, olive, abstract, floating, mustard yellow blobs, flesh
Palette for Jason, 2018
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, subtle, texture, form, red, salmon
A Level Of Calm
vertical, olive, brown, abstract, floating, turquoise, figrative
As Such
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, subtle, texture, form
After Thought, 2020
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing, blue strip, pearlescence, glitter
Barn Light Revisited, 2022
abstraction, burgundy, glow, subtle, stripe
One Trick Pony
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, left, composition
Diptych / Right
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, left, form
Diptych / Left
blue form, abstract, floating, red, blue blocks, family collection
Persian
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, balance
3Point
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, burnish
Brown Key
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, minimal, white
Light & Dark
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pearlsecence
Colette’s Choice, 2021
abstract art, abstraction, mixed media, Alberta artist, Canadian artist, animal
Elephant, 2021
vertical, olive, abstract, floating, turquoise, blue blocks
Morning, 2020
vertical, brown, abstract, small-scale, mustard
West, 2019
vertical, brown, abstract, angle, rust, blue, orange
Blue Switch, 2020
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, small, periwinkle
Blue Collage
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Aquatic Life
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
New Years Day Play 2, 2025
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
New Years Day Play, 2025
abstract, Alberta, collage, colour field, pink in fusion, dancing
Simultaneity
pastel, family, round, flower, watercolour, mixed media, minimal, angular, teal
Untitled 5-20
pastel, family, round, flower, watercolour, mixed media, minimal, division, blue, yellow
Untitled 6-20
pastel, family, round, flower, watercolour, mixed media, minimal sketch, contrast
Untitled (2013-1)
pastel, family, round, flower, watercolour, mixed media, minimal, pink, small-scale
Untitled (3-18)
pastel, family, round, flower, watercolour, layers, transparent
Untitled 4-19

Catalogs

Darrah & Smith-Peck Exhibition e-Catalog 2022

Darrah & Smith-Peck Exhibition 2022: Works within a Continuum

Darrah & Smith-Peck come together in this two-person exhibition to celebrate the on-going growth and development of art. This exhibition is just a snap-shot of the growth of these two artists in their long-standing career and growth in their art. Always ever-changing, evolving, and experimentation is the core to each artist’s growth, as is illustrated in these works by both Darrah & Smith-Peck. Darrah & Smith-Peck come together in this two-person exhibition to celebrate the on-going growth and development of art. This exhibition is just a snap-shot of the growth of these two artists in their long-standing career and growth in their art. Always ever-changing, evolving, and experimentation is the core to each artist’s growth, as is illustrated in these works by both Darrah & Smith-Peck

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