Outdoor

Phil Woodward Art

Woodbury, TN

"Illuminated Sculpure and Sculptural Illumination"

When freelancing as a graphic designer, a gallerist client said, “You’re more interested in your creativity than my business needs. You should be an artist."
It was like a bolt of lightning! Everything changed.

A meditation practice also helped shape my new direction. I knew I needed to be making art and that immersion in nature aided my inner peace. I also wanted to share my life more closely with a group of people, so I decided to move to a rural arts community. Based in rural Tennessee, surrounded by trees, creeks and a diverse community, I blend modernist form, abstraction and light, taking materials that reflect my love for natural beauty and transforming them into enthralling, glimmering, luminous sculptures. All of my works have personality. I want them to come alive; to animate the space around them, and I imagine people becoming enchanted.