Flash 'Arry

Flash 'Arry
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Wow, we'll done you what a brilliant result. Not being a bit footbally ( made up word) I viewed it as purely a portrait.

Agree with Sylvia, fantastic result on this one Phillip so the end very definately justified the means!

Hang on Studio Wall
31/03/2015
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When Mansell Construction were looking at fund raising ideas to mark their centenery I thought I'd weigh in with some art. We considered caricatures of the directors but thought that only the diretcors would buy these (or not!) We needed something to capture the imagination of people so that they would bid for it in an auction. At the time Pompey were flying high and near to making an FA Cup final for the first time since 1939. I swallowed my red and white striped pride and produced this. It is a watercolour on a whole sheet of Arches 640 gsm NOT and it sold at auction for £500-proceeds to breast cancer charities. Some things are more important than football.

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Phil Rogers

Phil is a mainly self taught watercolourist living in Hampshire in the coastal village of Warsash. His local environment is his inspiration for many of his paintings, as is his love for traditional jazz and his beloved Southampton Football Club, all rendered in his trademark loose yet 'literal'…

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