Philip Craig
(1951)
Previously Sold Works
PHILIP CRAIG
Dining Room, Stemillion, Bordeaux, France
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, titled and dated 2006 on the reverse
30 x 24 ins ( 76.2 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $2,280.00
Sale date: July 19th 2022
PHILIP CRAIG
Interior by a Window
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right
8 x 10 ins ( 20.3 x 25.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: October 26th 2021
PHILIP CRAIG
Still Life with Roses
oil on canvas
signed lower right and on the reverse
16 x 16 ins ( 40.6 x 40.6 cms )
Auction Estimate: $800.00 - $1,200.00
Price Realized $2,040.00
Sale date: August 23rd 2022
PHILIP CRAIG
Steps to the Lower Garden
oil on canvas
signed lower right; signed, dated "February 22, 1984" and inscribed "Painted in my Ottawa studio" on the stretcher on the reverse
84 x 83.5 in ( 213.4 x 212.1 cm )
Auction Estimate: $3,000.00 - $5,000.00
Price Realized $1,800.00
Sale date: June 25th 2024
PHILIP CRAIG
Hestercombe Orangerie
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right; titled on a a gallery label on the reverse
36 x 48 ins ( 91.4 x 121.9 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,680.00
Sale date: September 21st 2016
PHILIP CRAIG
Country House
oil on canvas
signed and dated 1988 lower right
24.5 x 30 ins ( 62.2 x 76.2 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,200.00 - $1,800.00
Price Realized $1,140.00
Sale date: March 1st 2022
PHILIP CRAIG
Wakefield Winter
oil on canvas
signed lower right; titled on a gallery label on the reverse
20 x 24 ins ( 50.8 x 61 cms )
Auction Estimate: $1,000.00 - $1,500.00
Price Realized $1,003.00
Sale date: October 27th 2020
PHILIP CRAIG
Punting on the River
acrylic on canvas
signed and dated 1986 lower right
48 x 60 ins ( 121.9 x 152.4 cms )
Auction Estimate: $2,000.00 - $3,000.00
Price Realized $1,920.00
Sale date: May 31st 2022
P. Craig Biography
(1951)
Philip Craig was born in Ottawa in 1951.
Encouraged by his parents to pursue art from an early age, he attended specialized art programs in Ottawa eventually graduating from Sheridan College of Art and Design in 1971.
The next decade was spent living and working in Newfoundland where his isolation from the art world allowed him to focus on traditional subject matter – landscape, portrait and still life paintings. By 1986, the act of painting became so compelling that Philip returned to his home base in Ottawa with his young family determined to paint full time.
The continual search for new subject matter and the wish to develop his technical abilities pushed Craig first to visit England, then France, Italy, Morocco and India – all travels that not only enriched his palette but also gave him a deeper appreciation of light. In the last few years, Craig has travelled within Canada and this has led to a strong desire to imprint his vision on his own country.
Philip has an extraordinary ability to connect with the viewer as he paints ordinary people engaged in ordinary activities – waiters at work, a moment by a canoe in the woods, reading a map in a café, the viewer wants to be there. If there is only a landscape or an interior, the viewer anticipates what is going to happen. This element of connection, accompanied by the beauty of colour, light and richly expressive brushwork creates a desire to live with his paintings.
