A former episcopalian priest and teacher, I am now busy researching the Bible in art . . . . . . .

Phillip Medhurst was born in Leicester, England in 1948. Educated at Alderman Newton’s, a state-funded grammar school, he won an open scholarship to read English at Wadham College, Oxford. After graduation he went on to read Theology as part of his training for the Anglican ministry. On ordination he served in the South London parish of Abbey Wood while qualifying as a schoolteacher at Goldsmiths’ College. For ten years Medhurst pursued a career as a teacher in holy orders in both state-funded and private schools. After a brief stint as a chaplain at Malvern College, Medhurst was received into the Catholic Church (as a layman, with his wife and two children) in 1988. He then spent another ten years supervising the religious life of Catholic Schools in the West Midlands before retiring from schoolteaching to devote his time to writing and fine art.

Maintaining that education for education’s sake is essentially virtuous, Phillip Medhurst has also sustained a belief in the power of Beauty to reveal higher Truth. For this reason, he has pursued an interest in artistic productions which by one means or another are placed in the wayfare of Everyman. This has led to him sharing on Wikimedia Commons (among other public religious art) Bible illustrations and the architectural sculpture created by Walter Gilbert and associates (q.v. on Wikimedia).

Medhurst's purchase and collation of prints illustrating the Bible ("The Phillip Medhurst Collection"), now housed at Belgrave Hall Leicester, was made possible by (and was within the terms of) the Kevin Victor Freestone Bequest. See

www.flickr.com/groups/the_phillip_medhurst_collection_of_...

and

www.flickr.com/groups/phillip_medhurst_bible

Medhurst’s own art, most notably “The Genesis Sequence” and “In Memoriam Robert Ujj”, is also publicly accessible, for which search “Phillip Medhurst” at Flickr. See

www.flickr.com/groups/the_art_of_phillip_medhurst

Medhurst currently lives in Calais.

For a complete inventory of Medhurst's published (printed) works see

www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_2/278-8495134-9442731?u... www.amazon.co.uk/Phillip_Medhurst