Figurative sculptor and teacher, born in London, who spent his formative years as a wood-carver, furniture-maker, blacksmith and potter, in St Albans and at Dartington Hall, then from 1935 as a teacher, including time at Blundell’s School. In 1950, Phillips was appointed head of sculpture at the College of Art in Leeds, where he was long-settled. In 1958, he was awarded the Herbert Baker Travelling Scholarship for Sculpture. He was a regular exhibitor at RA Summer Exhibitions until 1963; in 1959, he showed The Risen Christ for St John’s Church Westminster, under the name H Raines Phillips; and he was represented in The Teaching Image, 1964, a Leeds College of Art staff show at Leeds City Art Gallery. Where possible, he believed, “the artist should carry out every stage of the work himself and this applies particularly to bronze sculptures.
Text source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
