Tom Phillips, Nick Tite, 1988

Sitter: Nick Tite, editor and etchings printer

Medium/Date: Oil on canvas, 1988

Artist's note:

I first worked with Nick Tite at Editions Alecto in 1979 on the ill-fated first version of Dante's Inferno. He later came to join me at my studio as the etching printer and co-ordinator of the Talfourd Press edition, which he is still printing pages of in spare moments while editing the RA magazine.

Nick opened the batting for the Tom Phillips Eleven at my birthday party cricket match at the Oval, a fact alluded to in the cricket sweater he is wearing in this contre-jour painting.

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