About

Philip Parham has been an artist for about 45 years; this realisation occurred in Mrs Robbert's class in the first year of primary school whilst being required to draw a Union Jack -of all things- for the Queen's silver jubilee. This enforced act of patriotism at the age of five set him on the uncertain course of an artistic career and just like Odysseus, he is still voyaging home trying to find his Ithaca. 
This journey has taken in studying illustration in Exeter in the early 90s, followed by three creative years at the Royal Academy accumulating oversized abstract paintings later to fill his poor, unsuspecting family's houses. In 1998, he left the UK to pursue romance and adventure in Brazil, which was followed by the less romantic training to be an art teacher at the Institute of Education in London; this was followed by more sojourns abroad working in southern China near Guangzhou, and then in southern Brazil again in Porto Alegre. He currently resides in northern Tanzania just outside the fair city of Arusha in the shadow of the mighty Mt. Meru.