Phoebe Wiley is an artist who has worked for many years as both a painter and potter. Over time, her two- and three-dimensional works have influenced and transformed each other.

With respect to her paintings, her recent fascination with abstraction achieves a synthesis of color and gesture that creates an emotional quality imbued with visual harmony.

A selection of work is available at the artist’s studio.

Books now available …

Phoebe Wiley: Paintings and Pottery

Phoebe Wiley: Paintings

Earth, 2009

Oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in.

Earth, Air, Fire, Water series

Majolica Pottery

Bowls, Plates, Vessels of various size

 

It all started when…

As a child and young adult, Phoebe Wiley moved a lot. Her dad was in the military so the family lived in China, France, North Carolina, and northern Virginia, moving every two years. She later joined the Peace Corps and went to Peru with her new husband. There she designed woolskin products for a local artisan cooperative.

Phoebe has a degree in Languages from Georgetown University, where she studied French and German. She later learned Spanish in Peru. She studied painting and printmaking at Princeton University and the Boston Museum School, though is mainly self taught. She studied Ceramics with Ann Tsubota at Raritan Valley College.

Her paintings have been exhibited in galleries in Washington, DC and Lambertville, NJ,  and she has shown work at the Ellarslie Open in Trenton, NJ.   She is a founding member of the Covered Bridge Artisans annual studio tour.

 

Bella, Wood-Fired Kiln

 

Chronology

  • 1945, Born in Quantico, Virginia.

  • 1962–63, Corcoran School of the Arts and Design, Washington, DC, youth classes

  • 1963–67, Georgetown University, BS in Languages and Linguistics (1967)

  • 1965, Diplôme de Langue et Littérature Française, Université D’Aix, Marseilles, Aix-en-Provence, France

  • 1968–69, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, classes in drawing and painting 

  • 1971–73, Princeton University, classes in painting, drawing, and printmaking with Richard Savini

  •  1975, Adams Davidson Gallery, Washington, DC

  • 1984, Art Students League, painting class with Leatrice Rose

  • 1986, Moves to Long Lane Farm, Sergeantsville, NJ

  • 1990–93, Raritan Valley Community College, Ceramics I-IV and Raku class with Ann Tsubota       

  • 1994–Present, Founds and participates in Covered Bridge Artisans

  • 1995–2010, New Jersey Artists Guild, shows in seven biannual exhibitions

  • 1998 and 2000, Prallsville Mill, Stockton, group exhibitions

  • 2007, 2005, 2009, Somerset Art Association (now the Center for Contemporary Art, Bedminster Township), group exhibitions

  • c. 2012, Begins painting abstract compositions and using larger formats

  • 2012, Hunterdon Art Center, group exhibition

  • 2016 and 2017, Trenton City Museum at Ellarslie, juried exhibitions