Phillip Silverman
I have a background in biology, which has created an interest in figurative art. I have found glass an invaluable material for this area. I have predominately focused on figurative and anatomical studies
Emergence was a collaboration with myself, Australian artist Mark Eliot and New Zealand Model Anita Springfield. Taking Da Vinci’s idea that the human body reflects nature’s design, we created Emergence. This work utilises a slumped glass human torso as a landscape, with a flame-worked forest that draws inspiration from the book, The Hidden Life of Trees. The work combines glass and pumice (volcanic rock).