ABOUT PHIL PADWE

Phil received his MFA in Drawing from the New York Academy of Art and BA in Writing from SUNY Purchase. In between he completed a two-year independent study of Old Master drawings at the British Museum, where he fell in love with silverpoint. He has exhibited silverpoint drawings nationally and had his portraiture appear in The New York Times; NPR; and on NY1 News.

 

He is in the permanent collection of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and has commissioned portraits in the collections of Columbia University and NYU's School of International Students and Scholars. In addition to teaching workshops in Silverpoint and Ballpoint, he has taught Life Drawing at the New York Academy of Art and The Salmagundi Club; and teaches a weekly Cast Drawing class at The Art Students League of New York.