Philip Oliver Hale (born in 1963. Boston Mass.), is an American figurative painter who currently resides in London, England. Here is what Hale has to say about his work:
My career in illustration stretched from 1981 to 2000 with a few later forays and lapses….The more illustration work I did, the more its necessary strictures and compromises became trouble…My unhappiness with the illustration work I was producing pushed me into portraiture and then fine art (though that is a dumb misnomer in many ways). But as I progressed, an unexpected element that is normally associated with illustration turned out to be at the center of the newer work: narrative. In a way I stayed true to my original and unself-conscious love of illustration.
Published works
Major works
- Double Memory: Art and Collaboration by Rick Berry and Phil Hale
- A Monster at Christmas by Phil Hale and hom Canty
- Goad: The Many Moods of Phil Hale by Phil Hale
- Mockingbirds/ Relaxeder by Phil Hale
- Sparrow: Phil Hale by Phil Hale
- The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King, interior illustrations by Phil Hale
- Urge Ourselves Under by Phil Hale
- Empire by Phil Hale
- Black Crack by Phil Hale
Audio
- Golden Phone Plays Mockingbirds by Golden Phone (a band in which Phil Hale and Jon Wygens play)
Book covers
- Arbitrary Crude by Enders Buzcienski
- By the Time I got to Phoenix by Paolo Belhassaine
- Candyass, 2 a.m. by Willem Barough
- Conspicuity by Sanford Pel
- Farther the Shoals, Darker than This by Duane Michael Edley
- Fondle by Sanford Pel
- Goya by B. Grutbauer
- Hero is Angry by Y.Carlos Cantor
- Heart of Darkness" by Joseph Conrad
- Hong on the Range by William F Wu
- I am Drugs by Jayne Reeser
- Insomnia by Stephen King
- Lungs, Lips and Liver by Rena Davrin
- Makes Me Want to Cry by Bob Mertz
- Mofo by Hooglander Ivanov
- New Black Car by James Higgins (as yet unpaid)
- Relaxeder by Carsten Glock
- Shrivel and Deplete by B. Grutbauer
- Tendresse by Gene Scott Tzerati
- The Male and Female Uro-genital systems: Collected Essays 1992-97 by Rafael Onlhy
- The Male and Female Uro-genital systems: Collected Essays 1997-99 by Rafael Onlhy
- The Pornographic Diagram is Incorrect by Rena Davrin
- Mary the Very Hairy Fairy by Phil Hale and Avalon Hale Thomson
Magazines
Covers
- Epic December 1985
Interiors
- Playboy (July 98)
- Playboy (Sep 98)
- Playboy (Feb 05)
- Imbroglio Magazine (June 5)
- Imbroglio Magazine (April 9)
- Tripwire Magazine (July 9)
Other published work
- Poster for Spectrum 13: Call for Entries
- Featured in certain issues of Spectrum annual
- Poster for Lucca Comics and Games 2009