Pictured in article: “Panoply” by Jay McPhillips. Photo Credit: Contributed.
Jay McPhillips has been a painter for two decades. But the Philly-born artist says he’s been an art lover since he was a child. “Art always interested me. I enjoyed drawing as a kid and even took some summer art classes at Moore College of Art (Philadelphia) around 3rd grade,” he says. Now there are well over 400 sold paintings, and more to come.
“I paint all the time,” says Jay. “I’m not super-fast—about 3-5 days on a smaller painting.” He says he’d like to be a bit faster, but as anyone who looks at the details in his paintings can see, it’s hard to imagine less time is of the essence. That is, unless you’re coming up on a juried show or on a timeline to move your work into galleries….
